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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does being fast allow for a gazelle to do?
(a) The gazelle gets caught.
(b) It is able to always kill its prey.
(c) The fast gazelle survives and reproduces, thus spreading its genes.
(d) The gazelle is never caught and it throws off the balance of the environment.

3. Why do genes exist?
(a) They pass viruses down.
(b) They are used to carry DNA mappings.
(c) They are the descendants of previous genes.
(d) They insure that the species survives.

4. What do scientists want to discover about genetic mixing?
(a) How to make genetic mixing affordable.
(b) How to make genetic mixing more reliable.
(c) Why genetic mixing is better than cloning oneself.
(d) Why cloning is more successful than genetic mixing.

5. What was the 16th century cleric known for besides his scientific theories?
(a) Being a survivor of Protestant ridicule.
(b) His sermons.
(c) Killing Catholics.
(d) Switching between Catholic and Protestant religions.

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

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

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

9. When it is difficult or costly for female birds to choose males, females will choose ___________.
(a) Based on having the most food.
(b) Based on ornamentation.
(c) The male with the nicest wing span.
(d) The prettiest beak.

10. From a biologist's point of view, sexual reproduction is more _________ than asexual reproduction.
(a) Annoying.
(b) Unnecessary
(c) Expensive.
(d) Risky.

11. In an attempt to "outwit" these killers, organisms engage in _____________.
(a) Camouflage.
(b) Sexual reproduction.
(c) Asexual reproduction.
(d) Fission.

12. According to the author and other research, who should have a better evolutionary outcome?
(a) Asexual and Sexual Reproduction.
(b) Asexual reproduction.
(c) Sexual Reproduction.
(d) Same-sex Reproduction.

13. To women, attractiveness in a male signifies _____________.
(a) Infidelity in the relationship.
(b) Excessive amounts of sperm.
(c) The ability to support her and future children.
(d) Good genes.

14. Organisms that reproduce sexually will pass immunity or defenses down to whom?
(a) Their friends.
(b) Their spouses.
(c) Their descendants.
(d) No one.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chapter 2 begin?

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

3. Of course, both males and females have a (an) ________ to deceive the other sex to promote their own attractiveness.

4. How do species outwit killer viruses?

5. What can a psychiatrist expect to find in all people?

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