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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How do species outwit killer viruses?
(a) Splitting cells.
(b) Asexual reproduction.
(c) With their brains.
(d) Sexual reproduction.
2. What is the only way to understand why evolution is the way it is?
(a) To ignore its history.
(b) Study the twists and turns of the evolutionary story.
(c) Study creationists theories.
(d) To negate human nature.
3. Through sexual reproduction, what are offspring dealt?
(a) Weak and strong genes.
(b) Weak genes.
(c) Genes too similar to their parents.
(d) A different bag of genes from their parents.
4. Why does this organism present a mystery to the question of reproduction?
(a) It kills other organisms that participate in it.
(b) The organism gave up sexual reproduction.
(c) The organism decided to self replicate.
(d) It is extinct and cannot be studied.
5. Why is asexual reproduction a less risky option for an organism?
(a) There is no seeking out mates or the risk of being rejected.
(b) All the clones will be healthy.
(c) There will be no one competing.
(d) It is not less risky.
Short Answer Questions
1. Sexual reproduction benefits _____________.
2. At the end of Chapter 3, what does the author say will be explored in the next chapter?
3. Sexual reproduction is ___________ to keep the parasites and diseases off guard by creating new variations through each generation.
4. Pre- Darwinian thinkers such as _____________ believed that evolution was a process of individual adaptations that were later passed down to ancestors.
5. In humans, what does evolution rely on?
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