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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do organisms compete during evolution?
(a) They compete with each other to pass down more genes to the next generation.
(b) They kill their prey and one another to be the last person standing.
(c) They kill their prey to ensure their survivors.
(d) They try to kill one another so that they might live.

3. What kind of study does evolution become?
(a) Competition between friends.
(b) Functions of bodies and organisims as gene vehicles.
(c) How organisms become better over generations.
(d) A slow process.

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

5. Differences hold ___________, regardless of race, ethnicity, or culture.
(a) True.
(b) All of the time.
(c) Universal.
(d) Only sometimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have scientists discovered about sexual reproduction versus asexual reproduction?

2. What accounts for far more deaths than other predators or environmental occurrences?

3. What do apes and humans both prefer over being bored?

4. According to the author, why did humans develop intelligence?

5. Sexual reproduction benefits _____________.

(see the answer key)

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