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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would molecules that broke down other self-copying molecules and used their parts eventually become?
(a) Animals.
(b) Plants.
(c) Single-celled organisms.
(d) Inorganic materials.

2. What fundamental question does Dawkins want to consider?
(a) Why do molecules exist?
(b) Why do people exist?
(c) Why do genes exist?
(d) Why does DNA exist?

3. According to Dawkins, are mistakes in fidelity good or bad?
(a) They are neither good nor bad.
(b) They are usually good, but sometimes bad.
(c) They are always bad.
(d) They are always good.

4. In the science fiction story Dawkins cites, what do the instructions make?
(a) A time travel machine.
(b) A space ship.
(c) A computer.
(d) An energy generator.

5. What does the author compare nerves to?
(a) An engine.
(b) Electrical wires.
(c) An abacus.
(d) A computer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens in inversion?

2. What apparently selfish act of gulls does the author describe?

3. In Dawkins' metaphor about DNA, how does he describe the creation of new DNA by sexual reproduction?

4. What does Dawkins say that evolution is about?

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

(see the answer key)

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