The Selfish Gene Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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The Selfish Gene Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Trivers look at breeding as?
(a) A careful calculation based on resources.
(b) A war between the sexes.
(c) A race with time.
(d) A goal of existence.

2. What reason does Dawkins give that animal populations are about 50-50 male and female?
(a) Dawkins says that a 50-50 ratio is the stable balance of males and females.
(b) Male and female balances shift from generation to generation to average out to 50-50.
(c) Males are overly competitive and destroy each other when the male population is too high.
(d) Overlarge female populations purposefully create more males.

3. What does Dawkins demonstrate using the net benefit score?
(a) That it is to an organism's genes' benefit to alert family members to natural hazards.
(b) That it is to an organism's genes' benefit to alert family members to poisonous food sources.
(c) That it is to an organism's genes' benefit to show relatives that food is available.
(d) That it is to an organism's genes' benefit to alert family members of a predator.

4. According to the relatedness calculations in the book, is a child more closely related to a sibling or an uncle?
(a) It's impossible to compare.
(b) The child is equally related to both.
(c) An uncle.
(d) A sibling.

5. According to the relatedness calculations in the book, how much more closely related is a child to a sibling than a half-sibling?
(a) The child is one an a half times as closely related to the sibling.
(b) The child is twice as closely related to the sibling.
(c) The child is four times as closely related to the sibling.
(d) The child is three times as closely related to the sibling.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Dawkins' discussion, what does he consider alleles to be, relative to genes?

2. What does Dawkins postulate maintains sexual reproduction as a feature?

3. Why might an older animal be less valuable to selfish genes than young related animals?

4. What does Dawkins speculate might be a reason a female animal could be tricked into raising a child that is not her own?

5. How many nucleotide chains are in DNA?

(see the answer key)

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