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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pre- Darwinian thinkers such as _____________ believed that evolution was a process of individual adaptations that were later passed down to ancestors.
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Richard Dawkins.
(c) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
(d) Russel Wallace.

2. 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) More ways that evolution can work against organisims.
(c) How babies are made.
(d) Why there are men and women.

3. How does the Red Queen begin?
(a) With a discussion of human nature.
(b) With a story of Martians.
(c) With a discussion about the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland.
(d) With a discussion of asexual organisms.

4. What is the main focus of the novel?
(a) To study asexual reproduction.
(b) Parts of human nature are products of sexual selection.
(c) To compare sexual and asexual reproduction.
(d) To understand the advances in same-sex reproduction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Organisms that reproduce sexually will pass immunity or defenses down to whom?

2. How do organisms compete during evolution?

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

4. Although it becomes clear that sex is necessary to avoid parasites, what question remains?

5. When is maleness a reproductive advantage?

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