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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the set of bees Dawkins mentions that deal with this disease, what does one gene the bees have do?
(a) Cause the bees to open cells where sick baby bees are.
(b) Cause the bees to sting sick baby bees.
(c) Cause the bees to withhold honey from sick baby bees.
(d) Cause the bees to overfeed sick baby bees.

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

3. What apparently selfish act of gulls does the author describe?
(a) Fighting for fish.
(b) Eating others' baby chicks.
(c) Stealing another gull's nest.
(d) "Ditching" the rest of the flock when a predator is spotted.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many nucleotide chains are in DNA?

2. What did scientists do to test the genes that controlled bee behavior?

3. What would not have existed in early oceans, that would have allowed amino acids and proteins to exist for long periods of time, to slowly develop into more complex forms?

4. Why does the author use the word "apparently" to describe selfish or unselfish behavior?

5. What does the author suggest might be better wording than "survival of the fittest"?

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