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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the set of bees Dawkins mentions that deal with this disease, what does a second gene the bees have do?
(a) Cause the bees to throw sick baby bees out of the hive.
(b) Cause the bees to eat sick baby bees.
(c) Cause the bees to crush sick baby bees.
(d) Cause the bees to leave the hive where sick baby bees are.

3. When a cell divides to make a new cell with identical DNA, what is the process called?
(a) Meiosis.
(b) Alleles.
(c) Plasmosis.
(d) Mitosis.

4. How common does Dawkins say doubt about evolution is?
(a) He says it's rare.
(b) He says it's common.
(c) He says it's nonexistent.
(d) He says it's in everyone.

5. In Dawkins' discussion, what does he consider alleles to be, relative to genes?
(a) Understudies.
(b) Rivals.
(c) Immaterial extras.
(d) Cooperative partners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example of the type of valued human behavior that perhaps influences people to believe in group selection does Dawkins give?

2. What apparently unselfish behavior of small birds does the author describe?

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

4. In Dawkins' metaphor about DNA, how many books are on the bookshelf?

5. What would molecules that started to manufacture energy using the sun eventually become?

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