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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. In Chapter 5, the animals are unsure of _____________.
(a) Passing desirable genes to offspring.
(b) Being able to find a suitable mate.
(c) What their mate thinks of them.
(d) The male knowing if the egg is his.

9. What do genes seek through the actions of the bodies that contain them?
(a) Replication.
(b) To be upgraded.
(c) Change.
(d) Evolution.

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

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

12. What are the interests of most males?
(a) Impregnating as many women as possible.
(b) Being faithful to one female.
(c) Taking care of their mate and offspring.
(d) Being a good father.

13. How does the Red Queen begin?
(a) With a story of Martians.
(b) With a discussion of human nature.
(c) With a discussion about the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland.
(d) With a discussion of asexual organisms.

14. Pre- Darwinian thinkers such as _____________ believed that evolution was a process of individual adaptations that were later passed down to ancestors.
(a) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
(b) Russel Wallace.
(c) Richard Dawkins.
(d) Charles Darwin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Zahavi, a scientist, theorize about reproduction mating?

2. What is the tangled bank theory?

3. Is attractiveness always the only criteria for mate selection?

4. Who has solutions concerning genetics?

5. What are transposons?

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