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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Organisms that reproduce sexually will pass immunity or defenses down to whom?
(a) Their friends.
(b) Their spouses.
(c) No one.
(d) Their descendants.

2. To explain sex, scientists need to find ________________.
(a) Why people are attracted to one another.
(b) A reason for an individual organism to prefer sexual over asexual reproduction.
(c) A new way for humans to mate.
(d) The reason for asexual reproduction.

3. Sexual reproduction benefits _____________.
(a) One member of the same organism versus another member of that same organisim.
(b) No one.
(c) Everyone.
(d) Only humans, not other organisms.

4. What have scientists discovered about sexual reproduction versus asexual reproduction?
(a) Sexual reproduction allows an individual to spread its gene over a large population.
(b) Asexual reproduction is easier.
(c) Asexual reproduction allows an individual to spread its gene over a large population.
(d) Sexual reproduction is easier.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do species outwit killer viruses?

2. What is the only way to understand why evolution is the way it is?

3. How does Chapter 2 begin?

4. According to the author and other research, who should have a better evolutionary outcome?

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

(see the answer key)

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