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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dawkins say that Honeyguide chicks do?
(a) Kill other chicks in the nest.
(b) Blackmail parents into getting more food by screaming loud enough to attract predators.
(c) Steal food from other chicks in the nest.
(d) Scream less loud to not attract too much attention to themselves as intruders.

2. What apparently selfish act of gulls does the author describe?
(a) "Ditching" the rest of the flock when a predator is spotted.
(b) Eating others' baby chicks.
(c) Fighting for fish.
(d) Stealing another gull's nest.

3. What molecules does Dawkins say existed in ancient seas and formed amino acids?
(a) Carbon dioxide, nitrogen, sulfur, and amonia.
(b) Water, carbon dioxide, methane, and amonia.
(c) Methane, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.
(d) Water, nitrogen, hydrogen, and sulfur.

4. In the set of bees Dawkins mentions that deal with this disease, what does one gene the bees have do?
(a) Cause the bees to overfeed sick baby bees.
(b) Cause the bees to sting sick baby bees.
(c) Cause the bees to open cells where sick baby bees are.
(d) Cause the bees to withhold honey from sick baby bees.

5. In Dawkins' metaphor about DNA, how does he describe the creation of new DNA by sexual reproduction?
(a) Two bookshelves are combined into one.
(b) Pages are torn out of different books and put together.
(c) Two books are combined into one two-volume work.
(d) Books from different shelves are mixed together on a new shelf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dawkins say points to the idea that all living things come from the same types of early molecules?

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

3. When a cell creates a sperm cell or egg cell with reduced DNA, what is the process called?

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

5. In Dawkins' example, why might a child try to get extra food, to the detriment of brothers and sisters?

(see the answer key)

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