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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What genders are not always needed?
(a) Hermaphrodites.
(b) Females.
(c) Males.
(d) None.
2. Ever since _____________ in the late 19th century, scientists have understood that all life forms are a product of biological evolution.
(a) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
(b) Richard Dawkins.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Russel Wallace.
3. What gender contains all cytoplasmic genes?
(a) Females.
(b) Hermaphrodites.
(c) Males.
(d) Males and Females.
4. Males are interested in increasing the _________ of sexual partners whereas women are interested in increasing the ________ of sexual partners.
(a) Percentage, number.
(b) Number, percentage.
(c) Quality, number.
(d) Number, quality.
5. What have scientists discovered about sexual reproduction versus asexual reproduction?
(a) Asexual reproduction is easier.
(b) Sexual reproduction is easier.
(c) Asexual reproduction allows an individual to spread its gene over a large population.
(d) Sexual reproduction allows an individual to spread its gene over a large population.
6. Why does this organism present a mystery to the question of reproduction?
(a) The organism gave up sexual reproduction.
(b) It kills other organisms that participate in it.
(c) It is extinct and cannot be studied.
(d) The organism decided to self replicate.
7. What do organisms that reproduce end up with for offspring?
(a) Completely different offspring.
(b) Smart offspring.
(c) Clones.
(d) Non functional offspring.
8. From a biologist's point of view, sexual reproduction is more _________ than asexual reproduction.
(a) Risky.
(b) Unnecessary
(c) Expensive.
(d) Annoying.
9. What is lekking?
(a) A way for birds to mate.
(b) A courtship dance among mammals.
(c) A sexual market where male birds congregate.
(d) A time of mating for birds.
10. What is the primary part in sexual reproduction?
(a) Combining and outcrossing genes.
(b) Killing genes that are not yours.
(c) Combining all genes.
(d) Outcrossing genes.
11. In Chapter 4, what story of tragedy does the author tell?
(a) The kangeroo story.
(b) The story of the fisherman.
(c) The story of the salesman.
(d) The story of the gazelle.
12. At the end of Chapter 3, what does the author say will be explored in the next chapter?
(a) Why babies are hard to keep alive.
(b) How babies are made.
(c) Why there are men and women.
(d) More ways that evolution can work against organisims.
13. Why is this book called The Red Queen?
(a) It is symbolic of higher level genetics.
(b) The author has always enjoyed the character from Alice in Wonderland.
(c) The landscape around the Queen moves as she moves. Evolutionary progress is relative to ones surroundings.
(d) The author thinks that the title is ironic.
14. What is the Vicar of Bray hypothesis?
(a) Same-sex reproduction must be understood to understand sexual reproduction.
(b) Sexual reproduction should not exist.
(c) Sexual reproduction provides rapid speed of evolution.
(d) Asexual reproduction provides rapid speed of evolution.
15. Is attractiveness always the only criteria for mate selection?
(a) Yes, females are shallow.
(b) No, only when selection is plentiful.
(c) Yes, females don't like ugly people.
(d) No, females like important mates.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do scientists want to discover about genetic mixing?
2. What are transposons?
3. In Chapter 5, the animals are unsure of _____________.
4. High status individuals tend to have __________.
5. According to the author and other research, who should have a better evolutionary outcome?
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