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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 is the bdelloid rotifer?
(a) A genetically engineered organism.
(b) A microscopic animal that can live in any kind of water.
(c) An organism that lacks certain genes.
(d) A type of animal that produces asexually.

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

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

4. What does the story in Chapter 5 prove for the author?
(a) How male support continues the species.
(b) Ideal mating conditions are rare.
(c) Producing offspring is the goal of all mammals.
(d) An example of sexual, rather than natural selection.

5. Due to the ________________, traits that increase reproductive successes will spread and those that do not will expire.
(a) Slow genetics of men.
(b) Low pregnancy rate.
(c) Evolutionary arms race.
(d) High pregnancy rate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of study does evolution become?

2. Who created the tangled bank theory?

3. Instead of scientists concentrating on why humans are the way they are, they should concentrate on _________.

4. Sexual reproduction benefits _____________.

5. What are the interests of most males?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a bdelloid rotifer?

2. To what is the human genome often compared?

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

4. Who developed the Red Queen Theory?

5. Why is the history of evolution a never ending arms race?

6. What is perplexing about sexual reproduction?

7. When is it even more important for a female to find a good mate?

8. How would a pre-Darwin think explain why giraffes have long necks?

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

10. What is the lottery theory?

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