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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one way of good gene replication that the author mentions?
(a) Sex.
(b) Fission.
(c) Asexual reproduction.
(d) Viruses.

2. What was a natural human situation in many early societies?
(a) Biological selection.
(b) Natural selection.
(c) Monogamy.
(d) Polygamy.

3. What do scientists want to discover about genetic mixing?
(a) Why genetic mixing is better than cloning oneself.
(b) How to make genetic mixing affordable.
(c) How to make genetic mixing more reliable.
(d) Why cloning is more successful than genetic mixing.

4. What is in the true interest of a female in reproduction?
(a) Polygamy.
(b) Monogamy.
(c) Infidelity.
(d) Altruism.

5. To explain sex, scientists need to find ________________.
(a) Why people are attracted to one another.
(b) A reason for an individual organism to prefer sexual over asexual reproduction.
(c) The reason for asexual reproduction.
(d) A new way for humans to mate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animals are only interested in exclusive fidelity?

2. When was polygamy stamped out?

3. What does sex do to the genome of humans and other organisms?

4. Who created the tangled bank theory?

5. Lower class individuals tend to have _________.

(see the answer key)

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