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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dawkins believe about the tension between survival of different generations?
(a) The children are always benefited, even at costs to older generations.
(b) A compromise evolves where different generations get reasonable amounts of resources.
(c) The parents are the primary benefactor because they control resources, and children only get the minimum of what they need.
(d) Children begin at a disadvantage, at the mercy of parents, and later begin to control the resources.

2. What does Dawkins say readers can think of DNA as?
(a) A dictatorial ruler.
(b) A computer controling the body.
(c) A set of plans.
(d) A set of general guidelines.

3. What does Dawkins speculate that cuckoo chicks might do?
(a) Steal food from other chicks in the nest.
(b) Scream less loud to not attract too much attention to themselves as intruders.
(c) Kill other chicks in the nest.
(d) Blackmail parents into getting more food by screaming loud enough to attract predators.

4. In the example that Dawkins gives, what do pigs sometimes do to the runt of the litter?
(a) Refuse to feed it.
(b) Eat it.
(c) Kick it away.
(d) Allow the other piglets to attack it.

5. What animals does the author mention as examples of animals that work hard to rescue or save others?
(a) Lions and dolphins.
(b) Bears and squids.
(c) Baboons and whales.
(d) Zebras and sharks.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many nucleotide chains are in DNA?

2. What shape does the author say water molecules in space make?

3. In Dawkins' example, why might an older child give up food for a younger sibling?

4. What is the most stable result of the specific ESS simulation Dawkins describes?

5. What does AI stand for?

(see the answer key)

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