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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In humans, what does evolution rely on?
(a) Sexual Reproduction.
(b) Asexual reproduction.
(c) Fission.
(d) Sexual and asexual reproduction.

2. How does Chapter 5 begin?
(a) With an explanation of courtship.
(b) With the story of a fisherman.
(c) With mating behavior of Australian brush turkeys.
(d) With observations about pine moles.

3. What is lekking?
(a) A way for birds to mate.
(b) A time of mating for birds.
(c) A courtship dance among mammals.
(d) A sexual market where male birds congregate.

4. Are individuals involved in evolution aware of the choices they are making?
(a) Ten per cent of the time.
(b) Always.
(c) Fifty per cent of the time.
(d) Never.

5. What did Zahavi, a scientist, theorize about reproduction mating?
(a) Male attractiveness signals the male's ability to survive.
(b) Male attractiveness hurts a male's ability to survive.
(c) Female attractiveness signals the male's ability to survive.
(d) Female attractiveness hurts a male's ability to survive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will happen to create more female babies in Chinese and Indian societies?

2. What is the chief competitor to the tangled bank theory and lottery theory?

3. What are out law genes?

4. In Chapter 4, what story of tragedy does the author tell?

5. What do genes seek through the actions of the bodies that contain them?

(see the answer key)

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