Origins of Life

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Whose experiment is show in the picture?

• Aristotle's

• Francesco Redi's

• Louis Pasteur's

• Albert Einstein's

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Pasteur's experiment led to the theory of

• Cells

• Biogenesis

• Heterotrophs

• Spontaneous Generation

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This scientist came up with a method still used today for preserving our food and drink.

• Needham

• Redi

• Pasteur

• Spallanzani

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__________ is the belief that life can arise from non-living things.

• biogenesis

• spontaneous generation

• cell theory

• evolution

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__________ is the theory that living things come from other living things.

• biogenensis

• spontaneous generation

• cell theory

• evolution

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This experiment was conducted by the scientists:

• Stanley Miller and Harold Urey
• Harold Urey and Albert Einstein
• Louis Pasteur and Francesco Redi
• James Watson and Francis Crick

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The electrical sparks mimicked?

• The Sun's energy
• Lightning
• Volcanic eruptions
• Cosmic radiation

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Miller/Urey and other scientists have shown that:

•  Life on early Earth required material from space
• Cells survived in the primitive atmosphere
• Amino acids could be produced from inorganic molecules 
• Simple cells can be produced in a laboratory

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The idea that Earth's early oceans had organic molecules that became the first life is called the...

• Primordial soup hypothesis
• Bubble hypothesis
• Miller-Urey Experiment
• Radioactive dating theory

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Earth's early atmosphere had no

• gasses

• volcanoes

• water vapor

• free oxygen

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A repeating cycle whereby organic molecules could have been brought together by energy from underwater volcanic gas bubbles and released into the atmosphere where UV rays changed them further

• evolution syntheis

• primordial soup theory

• creation theory

• Bubble hypothesis

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Which type of cell came first?

• Eukaryotic
• Prokaryotic
• Plant
• Both Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic cells evolved around the same time

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What process is shown within this diagram?

• Natural selection
• Endosymbiosis
• Chemical evolution
• Abiogenesis

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The theory of Endosymbiosis explains...

• The origin of eukaryotes
• How species develop
• How bacteria evolved
• Why cells rely on one another

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Endosymbiosis gave rise to

• golgi bodies
• chloroplasts and mitochondrea
• ribosomes and nuclei
• the rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum

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The 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 age
  
• Fossil B is older than fossil C
• Fossils A is older than fossil B
• Fossil D is older than fossil C