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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the primary purpose of sexual reproduction that is very beneficial for all offspring?
(a) Making many children.
(b) Speed of evolution.
(c) Meeting a soul mate.
(d) Slowness of evolution.

2. What is the lottery 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) It is more advantageous for humans to asexually reproduce.
(d) Organisms in densely populated areas survive better.

3. How do males harm themselves?
(a) Status games.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Uneasy violence.
(d) Uneasy violence and status games.

4. Males are interested in increasing the _________ of sexual partners whereas women are interested in increasing the ________ of sexual partners.
(a) Number, quality.
(b) Percentage, number.
(c) Number, percentage.
(d) Quality, number.

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

6. Lower class individuals tend to have _________.
(a) Less babies.
(b) Male babies.
(c) More babies.
(d) Female babies.

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

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

9. What will happen to create more female babies in Chinese and Indian societies?
(a) More boys will be born, because it is what people want.
(b) Virgin births will happen to adjust and make more female babies.
(c) There will be less births overall.
(d) There will be more births overall.

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

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

12. What are out law genes?
(a) Genes that act like viruses and hijack chromosones.
(b) Genes that are weak.
(c) Genes that will definitely be passed down.
(d) Genes which cannot be passed down.

13. What is the primary part in sexual reproduction?
(a) Combining and outcrossing genes.
(b) Killing genes that are not yours.
(c) Outcrossing genes.
(d) Combining all genes.

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

15. What do organisms that reproduce end up with for offspring?
(a) Clones.
(b) Completely different offspring.
(c) Smart offspring.
(d) Non functional offspring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do genes seek through the actions of the bodies that contain them?

2. In which cultures are male babies especially prized?

3. What gender contains all cytoplasmic genes?

4. What is the main focus of the novel?

5. If there are too many males, it will eventually be better to be a ____________.

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