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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What accounts for far more deaths than other predators or environmental occurrences?
(a) Death and destruction.
(b) Killing ones own organisms.
(c) Parasites and diseases.
(d) Accidents.

2. According to the author and other research, who should have a better evolutionary outcome?
(a) Asexual reproduction.
(b) Sexual Reproduction.
(c) Asexual and Sexual Reproduction.
(d) Same-sex Reproduction.

3. At the end of Chapter 3, what does the author say will be explored in the next chapter?
(a) Why babies are hard to keep alive.
(b) How babies are made.
(c) Why there are men and women.
(d) More ways that evolution can work against organisims.

4. What is the chief competitor to the tangled bank theory and lottery theory?
(a) The King's Theory.
(b) The tangled bank and lottery theory have no competition.
(c) The Red Queen Theory.
(d) The Blue Book Theory.

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) It is able to always kill its prey.
(d) The gazelle is never caught and it throws off the balance of the environment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens if a virus attacks a population of clones?

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

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

4. Are sexually reproducing organisms able to compete with asexually reproducing organisms?

5. Why is this book called The Red Queen?

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