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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Dawkins, are the self-copying molecules that Dawkins discusses "life" or not?
(a) Dawkins says that they are definitely not "life."
(b) Dawkins says it does not matter.
(c) Dawkins says that they are a kind of "life," but not as we know it today.
(d) Dawkins says that they are definitely "life."

2. What shape is the location where guillemots lay their eggs?
(a) Hilly.
(b) Rough and grassy.
(c) Flat.
(d) Jagged.

3. What do the letters A, T, C, and G stand for?
(a) Different types of genes.
(b) Different types of RNA.
(c) Different types of nucleotides.
(d) Different types of DNA.

4. How is male and female responsibility for offspring different in fish?
(a) Females care for the eggs, and when they hatch, they leave the live offspring to the males.
(b) Females may lay eggs and abandon them, while males fertilize the eggs and are left to care for them.
(c) Males and females both leave their fertilized eggs without investing resources in them.
(d) Males care for eggs, and then females take over when the offspring hatches.

5. What does Wynne-Edwards say happens when other animals communicate to the species that there is overpopulation?
(a) The animals have fewer young.
(b) The animals claim larger territories.
(c) The animals attack others' young.
(d) The animals store extra food.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Dawkins' description, how does a bully behave?

2. In early reproducing molecules, what is the measure of "success"?

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

4. In Dawkins' game theory analysis of a colony of birds and ticks, what were grudger birds?

5. What does Dawkins postulate would preserve a gene forever?

(see the answer key)

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