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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Dawkins say individuals within a species interact more with each other than with other species?
(a) Because they are more easily recognizable to each other since they are similar.
(b) Because they compete for the same resources using the same tools.
(c) Because they need each other to survive.
(d) Because they inhabit the same habitat.

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

3. What hazard does the author identify in killing a rival?
(a) A stronger rival might take the rival's place.
(b) Others might try to revenge the rival.
(c) The rival will no longer be able to cooperate to protect against enemies.
(d) The attacker might be ostracized for killing the rival.

4. What did Spanish researchers see a baby swallow do?
(a) Steal food from a magpie chick in the nest and give it to siblings.
(b) Alert parents to a magpie in the nest.
(c) Gather other chicks into a circle to surround and kill a magpie chick.
(d) Use leverage to throw a magpie egg out of its nest.

5. To what does Wynne-Edwards attribute changes to female mice as the population rises?
(a) Group selection.
(b) Natural selection of individuals.
(c) Random variation within groups.
(d) Random variation in individuals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What factors are part of Dawkins' net benefit score?

2. According to Dawkins, for whom does a bird regulate the number of eggs it lays?

3. What does Wynne-Edwards suggest that animals do to communicate overpopulation?

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

5. In Dawkins' metaphor about DNA, how does he describe the creation of new DNA by sexual reproduction?

(see the answer key)

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