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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 goal of existence.
(b) A race with time.
(c) A careful calculation based on resources.
(d) A war between the sexes.

2. 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 alert family members of a predator.
(d) That it is to an organism's genes' benefit to show relatives that food is available.

3. Do gulls recognize their own eggs and chicks?
(a) Gulls recognize their chicks and eggs.
(b) Gulls recognize their eggs but not their chicks.
(c) Gulls recognize neither their chicks nor their eggs.
(d) Gulls recognize their chicks but not their eggs.

4. Why might an older animal be less valuable to selfish genes than young related animals?
(a) The older animal is less likely to reproduce more of the genes.
(b) The older animal is likely to contain less successful genes than the young related animals.
(c) The older animal is certain to have all its genes already represented in a few young, related animals.
(d) The older animal's genes are likely to be decayed over time.

5. What does Dawkins compare point mutation to?
(a) A card getting shuffled into the wrong deck.
(b) A stray mark on a photocopy.
(c) A misprint on a book.
(d) A misspoken word.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What four categories does Dawkins have in his game theory analysis of male and female sexual and childrearing behaviors?

3. In Dawkins' metaphor about DNA, what represents a gene?

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. What is the smallest unit that is reproduced and carried on through natural selection?

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