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- 1. Multiple Choice
This experiment was conducted by the scientists:Stanley Miller and Harold UreyHarold Urey and Albert EinsteinLouis Pasteur and Francesco RediJames Watson and Francis Crick - 2. Multiple ChoiceWhich question were the scientists trying to answer with this experiment?Where do cells come from?How did prokaryotes form cell membranes?How are biomolecules formed?What gave rise to the Eukaryotic cell?
- 3. Multiple ChoiceThe apparatus in the experiment was used to mimic what?ProteinsPresent Earth conditionsEarly Earth conditionsNucleic acids (DNA/RNA)
- 4. Multiple ChoiceThe electrical sparks mimicked?The Sun's energyLightningVolcanic eruptionsCosmic radiation
- 5. Multiple ChoiceMiller/Urey and other scientists have shown that:Life on early Earth required material from spaceCells survived in the primitive atmosphereAmino acids could be produced from inorganic moleculesSimple cells can be produced in a laboratory
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhich type of cell came first?EukaryoticProkaryoticPlantBoth Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic cells evolved around the same time
- 7. Multiple ChoiceThe diagram shows fossils in different rock layers. Which of these statements about the age of these fossils is most likely correct?Fossil A and C are the same ageFossil B is older than fossil CFossils A is older than fossil BFossil D is older than fossil C
- 8. Multiple ChoiceBased upon the conditions of the early Earth, which forms of live most likely appeared first?Prokaryotic and aerobicProkaryotic and anaerobicEukaryotic and aerobicEukaryotic and anaerobic
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThe idea that Earth's early oceans had organic molecules that became the first life is called the...Primordial soup hypothesisBubble hypothesisMiller-Urey ExperimentRadioactive dating theory
- 10. Multiple ChoiceThe theory of Endosymbiosis explains...The origin of eukaryotesHow species developHow bacteria evolvedWhy cells rely on one another
- 11. Multiple ChoiceRNA World Theory states that ...Life came from RNALife came from lifeLife came from non living thingsLife came from outer space
- 12. Multiple ChoiceThe Miller-Urey experiment of 1953 was designed to test the hypothesis that lightning supplied the energy needed to turn atmospheric gases into organic molecules such as amino acids. Which of the following describes why the Miller-Urey theory is widely accepted today?Amino acids spontaneously form from molecules in the atmosphere todayOrganic molecules are present today in extremely high concentrationsThe process of synthesizing organic molecules from a mixture of gases has been successfully modeled in the laboratoryNo other alternative hypotheses have been introduced
- 13. Multiple ChoiceThe two extant species that are closely related to each other are __.A and BB and CC and DD and E
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