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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dawkins compare point mutation to?
(a) A stray mark on a photocopy.
(b) A misprint on a book.
(c) A card getting shuffled into the wrong deck.
(d) A misspoken word.

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

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

4. What example of the type of valued human behavior that perhaps influences people to believe in group selection does Dawkins give?
(a) Asking people to go to war to protect their country.
(b) Volunteering for community service.
(c) Getting a job to beneift one's family.
(d) Giving to a charitable organization to prevent world hunger.

5. 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?
(a) Enemies.
(b) Sunlight.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Acids.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two opposites does Dawkins say he is examining the biology of?

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

3. Does the author believe that all people should act selfishly?

4. What does Dawkins call the molecule that he imagines as the first molecule to make copies of itself?

5. What is the smallest unit that is reproduced and carried on through natural selection?

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