Spontaneous Generation and Origin of Life Review

Which scientist(s) tested the primordial soup model by using an electrical spark to produced amino acids from the molecules believed to be present on early Earth?

• Oparin-Haldane
• Miller-Urey
• Pasteur
• Spallanzani

Which of the following ideas that pockets of air released from underwater hydrothermic vents created tiny area in which organic compounds could form and concentrate?

• Bubble hypothesis
• Panspermia
• Spontaneous generation
• Endosymbiotic theory

Which scientist(s) suggested early earth was very different from present day and that lightning and volcanic activity catalyzed the creation of organic molecules to form a "primordial soup" from which life arose?

• Oparin-Haldane
• Miller-Urey
• Pasteur
• Spallanzani

Which of the following concepts explains the presence of mitochondria and chloroplasts in eukaryotic cells?

• Bubble hypothesis
• Panspermia
• Spontaneous generation
• Endosymbiotic theory

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Which of the following concepts suggests life on Earth came from meteorites(outer space)?

• Bubble hypothesis
• Panspermia
• Spontaneous generation
• Endosymbiotic theory

Which of the following is a key difference between Needham's and Spallanzani's experiments testing the idea of spontaneous generation?

• Needham heated his broth while Spallanzani did not.
• Spallanzani heated his broth while Needham did not.
• Needham sealed his flasks tightly while Spallanzani did not.
• Spallanzani sealed his flasks tightly while Needham did not.

Which scientist disproved spontaneous generation of large organisms by showing maggots came from flies not from rotting meat?

• Redi
• Needham
• Spallanzani
• Pasteur

Which scientist designed a special flask that allowed air in but kept microbes out and once and for all disproved spontaneous generation?

• Redi
• Needham
• Spallanzani
• Pasteur

Which gas was believed to be absent from early Earth's atmosphere

• Hydrogen
• Nitrogen
• Oxygen
• Carbon

Which of the following terms refers to life coming from other living things?

• Abiogenesis
• Biogenesis
• Spontaneous generation
• Endosymbiosis