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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gender contains all cytoplasmic genes?
(a) Males and Females.
(b) Hermaphrodites.
(c) Males.
(d) Females.

2. What is the chief competitor to the tangled bank theory and lottery theory?
(a) The Red Queen Theory.
(b) The tangled bank and lottery theory have no competition.
(c) The King's Theory.
(d) The Blue Book Theory.

3. The gender ratio is ___________ as an evolutionary pressure in humans.
(a) Undeniable.
(b) Strong.
(c) Harmful.
(d) Weak.

4. What will happen to create more female babies in Chinese and Indian societies?
(a) There will be less births overall.
(b) More boys will be born, because it is what people want.
(c) There will be more births overall.
(d) Virgin births will happen to adjust and make more female babies.

5. To explain sex, scientists need to find ________________.
(a) A reason for an individual organism to prefer sexual over asexual reproduction.
(b) Why people are attracted to one another.
(c) The reason for asexual reproduction.
(d) A new way for humans to mate.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does evolution work?

2. What is one way of good gene replication that the author mentions?

3. What is the bdelloid rotifer?

4. Why is the Vicar of Bray theory flawed?

5. What genders are not always needed?

(see the answer key)

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