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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the set of bees Dawkins mentions that deal with this disease, what does a second gene the bees have do?
(a) Cause the bees to leave the hive where sick baby bees are.
(b) Cause the bees to eat sick baby bees.
(c) Cause the bees to throw sick baby bees out of the hive.
(d) Cause the bees to crush sick baby bees.

2. What happens to animals that tend to lose in fights?
(a) They tend to fight more aggressively in the future.
(b) They tend to challenge less dominant rivals in the future.
(c) They tend to give up sooner in the future.
(d) They tend to change their fighting strategies.

3. What does the author suggest might be better wording than "survival of the fittest"?
(a) Survival of the best.
(b) Survival of the most reliable.
(c) Survival of the stable.
(d) Survival of the most adaptable.

4. What happens in inversion?
(a) A gene is inserted backwards on a strand of DNA.
(b) Chromosomes are inserted backwards in a cell nucleus.
(c) A nucleotide is inserted backwards in DNA.
(d) DNA is inserted backwards in a chromosome.

5. What game, played by computers, does Dawkins use as an example of things that can happen automatically based on rules?
(a) Backgammon.
(b) Go.
(c) Checkers.
(d) Chess.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to female mice as the population rises to unacceptable limits?

2. What behavior does the author cite about how elephant seals relate to rivals?

3. What type of math does the author discuss that's used to model how real animals behave in the world?

4. What would not have existed in early oceans, that would have allowed amino acids and proteins to exist for long periods of time, to slowly develop into more complex forms?

5. How would the results differ if the goal were the success of the group?

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