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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chapter 5 begin?

2. What are out law genes?

3. How do organisms compete during evolution?

4. What is the male to female ratio?

5. Lower class individuals tend to have _________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is interesting about the creator of the Vicar of Bray creator?

2. What is a bdelloid rotifer?

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

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

5. What secondary quality do men look for in women?

6. What does the Red Queen Theory state?

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

8. What is the lottery theory?

9. Why do genes exist in the first place?

10. What does the sexy sons theory say?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does natural selection take a back seat to sexual selection in Ridley's opinion? How do natural selection traits actually become sexual selection traits?

Essay Topic 2

Male Australian turkeys build spectacular mounds. They build these mounds to attract females. When a female shares a mound with a turkey, she is saying she will give him offspring. In this case, how have mound building skills changed?

What has now become important about mound building skills?

Essay Topic 3

Who developed the Red Queen Theory and what does the theory say? How does the Red Queen Theory assert itself throughout the history of animals? Give an example of how the Red Queen Theory works.

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