View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What almost always happens when copies of things are made, according to Dawkins?
(a) An overabundance of copies.
(b) Mistakes in the copies.
(c) Confusion between copies and originals.
(d) Conflict between the copies.

2. What does Dawkins postulate maintains sexual reproduction as a feature?
(a) The need for genetic variation.
(b) The desireability of genetic mutations.
(c) The impossibility of asexual reproduction.
(d) The sexual reproduction gene trying to copy itself.

3. What does longevity provide to an early molecule, according to Dawkins?
(a) Time to make copies of itself.
(b) Time to repair itself.
(c) Time to modify itself.
(d) Time to modify its surroundings.

4. What process does the existence of Dawkins' imagined early molecules closely resemble?
(a) Diffusion.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Crystalization.
(d) Hybridization.

5. In the science fiction story Dawkins cites, what do the instructions make?
(a) A space ship.
(b) An energy generator.
(c) A computer.
(d) A time travel machine.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To what does Dawkins compare ESS conclusions about individual behaviors within a species?

4. In the science fiction story Dawkins cites, who sends instructions through time?

5. What is a "war of attrition" based on in ESS?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 288 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample