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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. Why is this book called The Red Queen?
(a) The author has always enjoyed the character from Alice in Wonderland.
(b) The author thinks that the title is ironic.
(c) The landscape around the Queen moves as she moves. Evolutionary progress is relative to ones surroundings.
(d) It is symbolic of higher level genetics.

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

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

5. What can a psychiatrist expect to find in all people?
(a) Extreme emotions and rational behaviors.
(b) No similarities in emotions.
(c) Similar emotions and behaviors.
(d) Psychopathic behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do organisms that reproduce end up with for offspring?

2. Due to the ________________, traits that increase reproductive successes will spread and those that do not will expire.

3. What is sexual selection?

4. How do species outwit killer viruses?

5. What is the bdelloid rotifer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What would lead a woman to pick a man based on looks?

2. What is a bdelloid rotifer?

3. What does sexual reproduction mostly consist of?

4. What is the lottery theory?

5. What is the tangled bank theory?

6. How does the book begin and why is it important?

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

8. Who developed the Red Queen Theory?

9. Explain the story of the fisherman.

10. To what is the human genome often compared?

(see the answer keys)

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