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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do species outwit killer viruses?
(a) With their brains.
(b) Sexual reproduction.
(c) Splitting cells.
(d) Asexual reproduction.

2. What is the "good genes" theory?
(a) More attractive people make smart people.
(b) Beautiful children are evil.
(c) Smart people are attracted to other smart people.
(d) More attractive males will produce beautiful children.

3. Why is asexual reproduction a less risky option for an organism?
(a) There is no seeking out mates or the risk of being rejected.
(b) It is not less risky.
(c) All the clones will be healthy.
(d) There will be no one competing.

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

5. Is attractiveness always the only criteria for mate selection?
(a) No, females like important mates.
(b) No, only when selection is plentiful.
(c) Yes, females don't like ugly people.
(d) Yes, females are shallow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the interests of most males?

2. Most modern societies are _________.

3. What is the bdelloid rotifer?

4. What is the development of language?

5. How does Chapter 2 begin?

(see the answer key)

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