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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dawkins postulate maintains sexual reproduction as a feature?
(a) The sexual reproduction gene trying to copy itself.
(b) The impossibility of asexual reproduction.
(c) The need for genetic variation.
(d) The desireability of genetic mutations.

2. What does Dawkins describe life forms as?
(a) Projections of self-copying molecules into a new dimension.
(b) Multiplications of self-copying molecules.
(c) Simple enlargements of self-copying molecules.
(d) Machines to protect competing self-copying molecules.

3. What does the Watt Governor machine appear to do?
(a) Cry.
(b) Talk.
(c) Scream.
(d) Think.

4. What does Wynne-Edwards teach?
(a) That evolution is only partially responsible for behaviors.
(b) That individuals strive for individual success within the group.
(c) That group behaviors are evolved and individual behaviors are incidental.
(d) That groups of animals evolved for the good of the group.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the science fiction story Dawkins cites, who sends instructions through time?

2. If two genes normally cooperate, what happens when one gene is missing?

3. What process does the existence of Dawkins' imagined early molecules closely resemble?

4. When a cell creates a sperm cell or egg cell with reduced DNA, what is the process called?

5. In Dawkins' metaphor about DNA, what does the bookshelf represent?

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