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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many nucleotide chains are in DNA?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

2. In the set of bees Dawkins mentions that deal with this disease, what does a second gene the bees have do?
(a) Cause the bees to eat sick baby bees.
(b) Cause the bees to throw sick baby bees out of the hive.
(c) Cause the bees to leave the hive where sick baby bees are.
(d) Cause the bees to crush sick baby bees.

3. What does Dawkins point out about antelopes' herd behavior?
(a) The herd behavior is not an adaptation.
(b) The herd behavior sacrifices an individual for the species survival.
(c) The herd behavior gives indidivuals a better chance of survival.
(d) The herd behavior is fot the good of the species.

4. What process does the existence of Dawkins' imagined early molecules closely resemble?
(a) Crystalization.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Hybridization.
(d) Diffusion.

5. What molecules does Dawkins say existed in ancient seas and formed amino acids?
(a) Methane, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.
(b) Water, nitrogen, hydrogen, and sulfur.
(c) Carbon dioxide, nitrogen, sulfur, and amonia.
(d) Water, carbon dioxide, methane, and amonia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what does Wynne-Edwards attribute changes to female mice as the population rises?

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

4. What does Wynne-Edwards suggest that animals do to communicate overpopulation?

5. In Dawkins' metaphor about DNA, what represents a gene?

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