View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Vicar of Bray hypothesis?
(a) Asexual reproduction provides rapid speed of evolution.
(b) Sexual reproduction provides rapid speed of evolution.
(c) Same-sex reproduction must be understood to understand sexual reproduction.
(d) Sexual reproduction should not exist.

2. What are transposons?
(a) Diseases.
(b) Viruses.
(c) Weaker genes.
(d) Out law genes.

3. Through sexual reproduction, what are offspring dealt?
(a) Weak and strong genes.
(b) A different bag of genes from their parents.
(c) Weak genes.
(d) Genes too similar to their parents.

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

5. High status individuals tend to have __________.
(a) Less babies.
(b) Female babies.
(c) No babies.
(d) Male babies.

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

7. What is the "good genes" theory?
(a) More attractive people make smart people.
(b) More attractive males will produce beautiful children.
(c) Smart people are attracted to other smart people.
(d) Beautiful children are evil.

8. Why does this organism present a mystery to the question of reproduction?
(a) The organism gave up sexual reproduction.
(b) The organism decided to self replicate.
(c) It is extinct and cannot be studied.
(d) It kills other organisms that participate in it.

9. What is the male to female ratio?
(a) 1:3.
(b) 1:2.
(c) 2:1.
(d) 1:1.

10. To understand human nature, what must we understand?
(a) The origin of human nature.
(b) The origin of attraction between humans.
(c) The origin of emotions.
(d) Differences in humans.

11. Of course, both males and females have a (an) ________ to deceive the other sex to promote their own attractiveness.
(a) Purpose.
(b) Reason.
(c) Right.
(d) Incentive.

12. What is the continuous arms race that occurs between organisms?
(a) World War II.
(b) People will try to kill one another so that their genes may carry on.
(c) No one can catch up.
(d) Once an advantage is gained, the loser will adapt to negate the advantage.

13. Who cannot compete with males?
(a) Masculine females.
(b) Other males.
(c) Females.
(d) Hermaphrodites.

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

15. What genders are not always needed?
(a) Hermaphrodites.
(b) Females.
(c) Males.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is asexual reproduction a less risky option for an organism?

2. What do the females of this same group prefer?

3. How does evolution work?

4. What is the only way to understand why evolution is the way it is?

5. What does the story in Chapter 5 prove for the author?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 551 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample