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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 wait for the strongest rival to die or become too old.
(d) Elephant seals group together to attack the strongest rival.

2. What does Wynne-Edwards believe about territories that animals fight over?
(a) Individual territories provide survival for the individual.
(b) Individual territories are illusions.
(c) Individual territories provide survival for the species.
(d) Individual territories are symbolic.

3. Can a gene change it's strategy for survival?
(a) No, genes can only create the protein they are formed to generate.
(b) Yes, genes modify themselves to try new strategies.
(c) Yes, genes modify their strategy by chaning the proteins they form.
(d) No, genes only predict a likely strategy and are stuck with it.

4. Which cells in an organism contain the creature's DNA?
(a) Paraxial cells.
(b) Interstitial cells.
(c) All of them.
(d) Barrier funciton cells.

5. What is a "war of attrition" based on in ESS?
(a) How often a goal will be abandoned.
(b) The amount of will and effort it takes to achieve a goal.
(c) How much time and energy a goal is worth.
(d) How many possible routes there are to a particular goal.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Dawkins, are the self-copying molecules that Dawkins discusses "life" or not?

2. According to Dawkins, for whom does a bird regulate the number of eggs it lays?

3. What does Dawkins describe life forms as?

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

5. What does the author compare nerves to?

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