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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Dawkins' discussion, what does he consider alleles to be, relative to genes?
(a) Cooperative partners.
(b) Immaterial extras.
(c) Rivals.
(d) Understudies.

2. What does the Watt Governor machine regulate?
(a) How hot it becomes.
(b) How fast its arms spin.
(c) How high it rises.
(d) How heavy it becomes.

3. What did scientists do to test the genes that controlled bee behavior?
(a) Breed bees without either gene.
(b) Breed bees with one of the genes only.
(c) Breed bees with duplicates of one of the genes.
(d) Breed bees with duplicates of both genes.

4. What would give longevity to early self-duplicating molecules, according to Dawkins?
(a) Smaller numbers of elements.
(b) Larger numbers of components.
(c) Greater flexibility.
(d) Greater stability.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Dawkins believe people want to view parental care as different from other evolutionary behaviors?

2. What game, played by computers, does Dawkins use as an example of things that can happen automatically based on rules?

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

4. What would molecules that grouped and built protective walls around themselves become?

5. What kind of animals does the intruder retreat experiment by Niko Tinbergen use?

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