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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Does Dawkins believe people want to view parental care as different from other evolutionary behaviors?
(a) No, Dawkins believes people can clearly see that parental care fits with evolutionary forces.
(b) No, but Dawkins believes that parental care is a special case.
(c) Yes, he believes people want to consider parental care a special case.
(d) Yes, but only as it applies to mother-child relationships..

2. In Dawkins' metaphor about DNA, how does he describe the creation of new DNA by sexual reproduction?
(a) Books from different shelves are mixed together on a new shelf.
(b) Two books are combined into one two-volume work.
(c) Pages are torn out of different books and put together.
(d) Two bookshelves are combined into one.

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

4. What would happen to an early molecule that made many more copies of itself than other molecules made of themselves?
(a) There would be a greater chance of copies of it surviving.
(b) There would be a lower chance of copies of it surviving.
(c) There would be too many copies identical to the original, and they would mutually destruct.
(d) There would be fewer copies that were similar to the original.

5. When a cell creates a sperm cell or egg cell with reduced DNA, what is the process called?
(a) Alleles.
(b) Mitosis.
(c) Meiosis.
(d) Plasmosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Dawkins attribute a male backing down from a powerful rival over territory?

2. What response does Dawkins give to the idea that birth control is wrong because it's unnatural?

3. In early reproducing molecules, what is the measure of "success"?

4. What does Dawkins say points to the idea that all living things come from the same types of early molecules?

5. In the science fiction story Dawkins cites, what do the instructions make?

(see the answer key)

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