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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many nucleotide chains are in DNA?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

2. What type of math does the author discuss that's used to model how real animals behave in the world?
(a) Chaos theory.
(b) Game theory.
(c) Probability theory.
(d) Approximation theory.

3. What behavior does the author cite about how elephant seals relate to rivals?
(a) Elephant seals kill increasingly difficult rivals until they are killed.
(b) Elephant seals steal mates away from the strongest rival.
(c) Elephant seals wait for the strongest rival to die or become too old.
(d) Elephant seals group together to attack the strongest rival.

4. What does Wynne-Edwards believe about birth rates?
(a) Species might regulate birth rates for individuals.
(b) Birth rates are controlled by a combination of species and individual needs.
(c) Individuals might purposefully reduce birth rates for the good of the species.
(d) Birth rates will always increase unless environmental factors intervene.

5. What did scientists do to test the genes that controlled bee behavior?
(a) Breed bees with duplicates of both genes.
(b) Breed bees with one of the genes only.
(c) Breed bees with duplicates of one of the genes.
(d) Breed bees without either gene.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens in inversion?

2. To what does Wynne-Edwards attribute changes to female mice as the population rises?

3. According to Dawkins, how might a gene that normally does something selfish end in doing something unselfish?

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

5. What does Dawkins suggest fooling certain genes into thinking the body is younger might do?

(see the answer key)

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