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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of animals does the intruder retreat experiment by Niko Tinbergen use?
(a) Worms.
(b) Birds.
(c) Fish.
(d) Rats.

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

3. What type of animal brains does Dawkins say are most successful?
(a) Animal brains that can learn.
(b) Animal brians that can analyze input.
(c) Animal brians that can creat instinctive action.
(d) Animal brains that can communicate quickly.

4. What would molecules that grouped and built protective walls around themselves become?
(a) Animals.
(b) Plants.
(c) Single-celled organisms.
(d) Inorganic materials.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the set of bees Dawkins mentions that deal with this disease, what does a second gene the bees have do?

3. What would happen to an early molecule that made many more copies of itself than other molecules made of themselves?

4. What does the Watt Governor machine appear to do?

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

(see the answer key)

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