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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the females of this same group prefer?
(a) Males that will take care of them.
(b) Males who are attractive.
(c) Intelligent males.
(d) Well-built mounds, instead of poorly constructed mounds.

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

3. Are individuals involved in evolution aware of the choices they are making?
(a) Ten per cent of the time.
(b) Fifty per cent of the time.
(c) Always.
(d) Never.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do genes exist?

2. What is the tangled bank theory?

3. What kind of study does evolution become?

4. How does Chapter 5 begin?

5. What is the lottery theory?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does sexual reproduction mostly consist of?

2. What does the sexy sons theory say?

3. From a biologist's point of view, why is sexual reproduction not as successful as asexual?

4. Why is there a ratio of 1:1 in males and females?

5. Explain the story of the fisherman.

6. To what is the human genome often compared?

7. After the Vicar of Bray theory, what did scientists try to prove?

8. Why are out law genes interesting?

9. Why do males want to be with many females?

10. What is a bdelloid rotifer?

(see the answer keys)

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