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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How closely related are two sister bees?
(a) Three quarters.
(b) One half.
(c) One quarter.
(d) One.

2. What factors are part of Dawkins' net benefit score?
(a) Risk to the organism, risk to the other, an relatedness to the other.
(b) Benefit to the organism, risk to the other, and relatedness to the other.
(c) Benefit to the other, relatedness to the other, and risk to the organism.
(d) Benefit to the organism, risk to the organism, and relatedness to the other.

3. What did scientists do to test the genes that controlled bee behavior?
(a) Breed bees without either gene.
(b) Breed bees with one of the genes only.
(c) Breed bees with duplicates of one of the genes.
(d) Breed bees with duplicates of both genes.

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

5. What does PI stand for?
(a) Parental Intelligence.
(b) Parental Investment.
(c) Parental Integrity.
(d) Parental Involvement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What process does the existence of Dawkins' imagined early molecules closely resemble?

2. How does Dawkins define communication?

3. How does Darwin characterize the idea that the goal of evolution is for a species to survive, so individuals will take actions that are good for the species?

4. According to the relatedness calculations in the book, how closely related is an individual to a cousin?

5. What reason does Dawkins give that females care more for offspring?

(see the answer key)

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