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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Are sexually reproducing organisms able to compete with asexually reproducing organisms?
(a) Only when they are genetically engineered.
(b) No, never.
(c) Occasionally.
(d) Yes, always.

2. How does Chapter 2 begin?
(a) With a fictional account of a Martian visitor.
(b) Information about the author.
(c) An explanation of sexual reproduction.
(d) With diagrams.

3. What is one way of good gene replication that the author mentions?
(a) Asexual reproduction.
(b) Viruses.
(c) Sex.
(d) Fission.

4. Lower class individuals tend to have _________.
(a) Female babies.
(b) Male babies.
(c) More babies.
(d) Less babies.

5. In 1970, __________ argued that the individual is merely a container for genes.
(a) Russel Wallace.
(b) Richard Dawkins.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.

Short Answer Questions

1. In humans, what does evolution rely on?

2. What is the bdelloid rotifer?

3. To women, attractiveness in a male signifies _____________.

4. What is the tangled bank theory?

5. Why do genes exist?

(see the answer key)

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