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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shape is the location where guillemots lay their eggs?
(a) Jagged.
(b) Hilly.
(c) Flat.
(d) Rough and grassy.

2. What apparently selfish act of gulls does the author describe?
(a) Fighting for fish.
(b) Eating others' baby chicks.
(c) "Ditching" the rest of the flock when a predator is spotted.
(d) Stealing another gull's nest.

3. To what does Dawkins compare ESS conclusions about individual behaviors within a species?
(a) Cell development within an organ.
(b) DNA development within chromosomes.
(c) Species behavior within an ecosystem.
(d) Gene development within DNA.

4. What does Dawkins say points to the idea that all living things come from the same types of early molecules?
(a) All life forms have basic cell structures.
(b) All life forms have similar pH balances.
(c) All life forms are based on carbon.
(d) All life forms are made from DNA molecules.

5. What does AI stand for?
(a) Altruistic Investment.
(b) Authentic Intelligence.
(c) Antecedent Integrity.
(d) Anomalous Involvement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a female bird doing, according to Dawkins, by forcing the male to make a nest before she breeds with him?

2. What is a "war of attrition" based on in ESS?

3. What does an animal do when it fails to claim a territory?

4. What does Medawar's study conclude?

5. Does the author believe that genetically inherited traits cannot be changed?

(see the answer key)

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