1. What four categories does Dawkins have in his game theory analysis of male and female sexual and childrearing behaviors?
(a) Faithful females, faithless females, faithful males, and faithless males.
(b) Accepting females, rejecting females, cooperative males, and uncooperative males.
(c) Coy females, philandering females, demanding males, and unreliable males.
(d) Coy females, fast females, faithful males, and philandering males.

2. In Dawkins' discussion, what does he consider alleles to be, relative to genes?
(a) Cooperative partners.
(b) Rivals.
(c) Understudies.
(d) Immaterial extras.

3. What does Dawkins suggest fooling certain genes into thinking the body is younger might do?
(a) Increase lifespan.
(b) Increase reproduction.
(c) Decrease mutation.
(d) Decrease genetic variation.

4. When a cell divides to make a new cell with identical DNA, what is the process called?
(a) Plasmosis.
(b) Alleles.
(c) Mitosis.
(d) Meiosis.

5. What chance does a parent have of giving a particular gene to a child?
(a) A thirty percent chance.
(b) A sixty percent chance.
(c) A forty percent chance.
(d) A fifty percent chance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What attribute of male birds of paradise does Zahavi say is a kind of boast that even with a dangerous physical characteristic, the bird is strong enough to survive?

2. In sexual reproduction, what does the larger egg cell have that the smaller sperm cell does not?

3. How does Dawkins postulate that animals judge relatedness?

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

5. What is a recessive gene?

(see the answer key)

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