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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do males harm themselves?
(a) Status games.
(b) Uneasy violence.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Uneasy violence and status games.

2. What is the bdelloid rotifer?
(a) A genetically engineered organism.
(b) A type of animal that produces asexually.
(c) A microscopic animal that can live in any kind of water.
(d) An organism that lacks certain genes.

3. What are transposons?
(a) Out law genes.
(b) Diseases.
(c) Weaker genes.
(d) Viruses.

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

5. What does being fast allow for a gazelle to do?
(a) The fast gazelle survives and reproduces, thus spreading its genes.
(b) The gazelle gets caught.
(c) The gazelle is never caught and it throws off the balance of the environment.
(d) It is able to always kill its prey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Are there strong taboos against cousin marriage?

2. Young girls show a propensity for _________.

3. What is the continuous arms race that occurs between organisms?

4. What is the tangled bank theory?

5. Who cannot compete with males?

(see the answer key)

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