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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Dawkins, how might a gene that normally does something selfish end in doing something unselfish?
(a) The selfish behavior gene cannot end in doing something unselfish.
(b) The selfish behavior might be modified by external influences.
(c) The selfish behavior, combined with other genes' behaviors, might create an unselfish-seeming behavior.
(d) The gene might change its role because of negative response to the selfish behavior.

2. In the science fiction story Dawkins cites, who sends instructions through time?
(a) Robots.
(b) Intelligent animals.
(c) Future humans.
(d) Aliens.

3. Do gulls recognize their own eggs and chicks?
(a) Gulls recognize neither their chicks nor their eggs.
(b) Gulls recognize their eggs but not their chicks.
(c) Gulls recognize their chicks and eggs.
(d) Gulls recognize their chicks but not their eggs.

4. What does the Watt Governor machine appear to do?
(a) Cry.
(b) Talk.
(c) Scream.
(d) Think.

5. What is the name of the bee disease that Dawkins mentions in his example?
(a) Sac brood.
(b) Chalk brood.
(c) Foul brood.
(d) Stone brood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game, played by computers, does Dawkins use as an example of things that can happen automatically based on rules?

2. In the science fiction story Dawkins cites, what do the instructions make?

3. What mixture tends to arrive in ESS simulations of multiple types of behavior?

4. What kind of animals does the intruder retreat experiment by Niko Tinbergen use?

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

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