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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do males harm themselves?
(a) Status games.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Uneasy violence and status games.
(d) Uneasy violence.

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

4. What gender contains all cytoplasmic genes?
(a) Hermaphrodites.
(b) Males.
(c) Males and Females.
(d) Females.

5. What is sexual selection?
(a) Random mating between humans.
(b) Irrational mating between humans.
(c) Selection based on the strength of a mate.
(d) Selection based on the appeal of a potential mate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Vicar of Bray hypothesis?

2. What is the main focus of the novel?

3. Why is this book called The Red Queen?

4. What is the lottery theory?

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

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