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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, the animals are unsure of _____________.
(a) Being able to find a suitable mate.
(b) The male knowing if the egg is his.
(c) Passing desirable genes to offspring.
(d) What their mate thinks of them.

2. What is the tangled bank theory?
(a) Sexual reproduction is the riskiest way for humans to reproduce.
(b) Sexual reproduction allows for a smaller number of very exceptional offspring.
(c) Different organisms in an environment saturated with similar organisms have a greater likelihood of survival.
(d) It is more advantageous for humans to asexually produce.

3. Although it becomes clear that sex is necessary to avoid parasites, what question remains?
(a) How sex works.
(b) Whether or not sex is the best way to reproduce.
(c) Why sex works the way it does.
(d) Why people enjoy sex.

4. What have mound building skills become?
(a) Unimportant.
(b) A survival technique.
(c) A coveted skill.
(d) A reproductive skill.

5. What happens if a virus attacks a population of clones?
(a) The clone population will effectively kill the virus.
(b) The clones attack one another in order to survive.
(c) The virus will kill only the weakest clones.
(d) The clone population will be wiped out.

Short Answer Questions

1. From a biologist's point of view, sexual reproduction is more _________ than asexual reproduction.

2. In an attempt to "outwit" these killers, organisms engage in _____________.

3. Male human beings expect to have their _______ compete with the ________ of other males.

4. In 1970, __________ argued that the individual is merely a container for genes.

5. Who cannot compete with males?

(see the answer key)

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