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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 are transposons?
(a) Weaker genes.
(b) Out law genes.
(c) Viruses.
(d) Diseases.

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

3. At the end of Chapter 3, what does the author say will be explored in the next chapter?
(a) More ways that evolution can work against organisims.
(b) Why babies are hard to keep alive.
(c) How babies are made.
(d) Why there are men and women.

4. What type of civilization do the New Guinea tribes have?
(a) Scavengers.
(b) Hunter gatherers.
(c) Democratic governments.
(d) Hunters.

5. What is the chief competitor to the tangled bank theory and lottery theory?
(a) The Red Queen Theory.
(b) The Blue Book Theory.
(c) The tangled bank and lottery theory have no competition.
(d) The King's Theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the interests of most males?

2. Who developed the Red Queen theory?

3. Why is asexual reproduction a less risky option for an organism?

4. What is the solution of the individually rational genes?

5. From a biologist's point of view, sexual reproduction is more _________ than asexual reproduction.

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the story of the fisherman.

2. What is perplexing about sexual reproduction?

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

4. How do sperm sometimes kill the egg?

5. What is interesting about the mating skills of the Australian bush turkeys?

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

7. What does the Martian visitor that observes Earth wonder about?

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

9. What does sexual reproduction mostly consist of?

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

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