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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would competition between early self-copying molecules be over?
(a) Water.
(b) Gaseous molecules.
(c) Building-block molecules.
(d) Space.

2. How does Dawkins define communication?
(a) A gene behavior that helps one group of genes survive by influencing the behavior of another.
(b) A learned behavior that is founded in genetic behaviors linking multiple gene machines.
(c) A mutually learned behavior resulting from genetic behaviors that help groups of gene machines maintain cohesiveness.
(d) A gene behavior that allows cooperation between multiple gene machines.

3. What is the most stable result of the specific ESS simulation Dawkins describes?
(a) A 1:4 mixture of two kinds of behavior.
(b) A 3:2 mixture of two kinds of behavior.
(c) A 1:1 mixture of two kinds of behavior.
(d) A 7:5 mixture of two kinds of behavior.

4. What happens to cuckoo eggs that look dissimilar to the host eggs they replace?
(a) They are recognized but allowed to stay in the nest.
(b) They aren't recognized by the surrogate parent birds.
(c) They are raised by the cuckoos instead of surrogates.
(d) They are thrown out of the nest and don't survive.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Dawkins describe as "intruder retreat" behavior?

3. Do gulls recognize their own eggs and chicks?

4. Why might an older animal be less valuable to selfish genes than young related animals?

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

(see the answer key)

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