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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the Vicar of Bray theory flawed?
(a) It was made up by someone who is not a scientist.
(b) It has been proven wrong over the centuries.
(c) It does not take sexual reproduction into account.
(d) It sees evolution as the goal of an organisim.

2. Due to the ________________, traits that increase reproductive successes will spread and those that do not will expire.
(a) Evolutionary arms race.
(b) Slow genetics of men.
(c) High pregnancy rate.
(d) Low pregnancy rate.

3. To understand human nature, what must we understand?
(a) The origin of attraction between humans.
(b) Differences in humans.
(c) The origin of emotions.
(d) The origin of human nature.

4. What is the Vicar of Bray hypothesis?
(a) Asexual reproduction provides rapid speed of evolution.
(b) Sexual reproduction provides rapid speed of evolution.
(c) Sexual reproduction should not exist.
(d) Same-sex reproduction must be understood to understand sexual reproduction.

5. What does sex do to the genome of humans and other organisms?
(a) Makes stronger genes.
(b) Causes too much risk in the genes.
(c) Increases randomness of the genome.
(d) Decreases randomness of the genome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of study does evolution become?

2. Through sexual reproduction, what are offspring dealt?

3. What have scientists discovered about sexual reproduction versus asexual reproduction?

4. In 1970, __________ argued that the individual is merely a container for genes.

5. What is sexual selection?

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