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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do scientists want to discover about genetic mixing?
(a) Why cloning is more successful than genetic mixing.
(b) Why genetic mixing is better than cloning oneself.
(c) How to make genetic mixing more reliable.
(d) How to make genetic mixing affordable.

2. Instead of scientists concentrating on why humans are the way they are, they should concentrate on _________.
(a) How they got to be the way they are.
(b) A way to study humans without them knowing.
(c) Why humans are the way they are.
(d) Where humans live.

3. Why does this organism present a mystery to the question of reproduction?
(a) The organism decided to self replicate.
(b) It kills other organisms that participate in it.
(c) The organism gave up sexual reproduction.
(d) It is extinct and cannot be studied.

4. What is the primary purpose of sexual reproduction that is very beneficial for all offspring?
(a) Making many children.
(b) Meeting a soul mate.
(c) Speed of evolution.
(d) Slowness of evolution.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 3, what does the author say will be explored in the next chapter?

2. What kind of study does evolution become?

3. Through sexual reproduction, what are offspring dealt?

4. Due to the ________________, traits that increase reproductive successes will spread and those that do not will expire.

5. What is the main focus of the novel?

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