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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the letters A, T, C, and G stand for?
(a) Different types of DNA.
(b) Different types of RNA.
(c) Different types of genes.
(d) Different types of nucleotides.

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

3. In Dawkins' description, how does a bully behave?
(a) A bully acts aggressively but then always backs down.
(b) A bully acts aggressively and always fights.
(c) A bully acts aggressively but only follows through with weak opponents.
(d) A bully acts aggressively but never confronts an opponent.

4. What does Dawkins say readers can think of DNA as?
(a) A set of general guidelines.
(b) A computer controling the body.
(c) A set of plans.
(d) A dictatorial ruler.

5. What does Dawkins call the molecule that he imagines as the first molecule to make copies of itself?
(a) The replicator.
(b) The proto-RNA.
(c) The chicken-and-egg molecule.
(d) The duplicator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the bee disease that Dawkins mentions in his example?

2. What shape does the author say water molecules in space make?

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

4. What does an animal do when it fails to claim a territory?

5. What is a "war of attrition" based on in ESS?

(see the answer key)

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