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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Ever since _____________ in the late 19th century, scientists have understood that all life forms are a product of biological evolution.
(a) Russel Wallace.
(b) Richard Dawkins.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.

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

4. Pre- Darwinian thinkers such as _____________ believed that evolution was a process of individual adaptations that were later passed down to ancestors.
(a) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
(b) Richard Dawkins.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Russel Wallace.

5. Who has solutions concerning genetics?
(a) Geneticists.
(b) Molecular biologists and geneticists.
(c) Scientists.
(d) Doctors and scientists.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do organisms compete during evolution?

2. Why is asexual reproduction a less risky option for an organism?

3. Why is the Vicar of Bray theory flawed?

4. Why is this book called The Red Queen?

5. What do scientists want to discover about genetic mixing?

(see the answer key)

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