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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) Inorganic materials.
(b) Animals.
(c) Single-celled organisms.
(d) Plants.

2. What does Dawkins say that evolution is about?
(a) The good of an individual gene.
(b) The good of a species.
(c) The good of a particular DNA combination.
(d) The good of an individual person.

3. What apparently unselfish behavior of small birds does the author describe?
(a) Bringing excess food to others in the flock.
(b) Staying awake to warn the flock of approaching predators.
(c) Protecting another bird's eggs.
(d) Drawing the attention of a hawk to itself and away from the flock.

4. What does the Watt Governor machine regulate?
(a) How fast its arms spin.
(b) How high it rises.
(c) How hot it becomes.
(d) How heavy it becomes.

5. When a cell creates a sperm cell or egg cell with reduced DNA, what is the process called?
(a) Meiosis.
(b) Alleles.
(c) Mitosis.
(d) Plasmosis.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Can a gene change it's strategy for survival?

3. What does Dawkins say readers can think of DNA as?

4. What would molecules that grouped and built protective walls around themselves become?

5. What does the Watt Governor machine appear to do?

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