Origin of Life

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

Which 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?

The apparatus in the experiment was used to mimic what?

• Proteins
• Present Earth conditions
• Early Earth conditions
• Nucleic acids (DNA/RNA)

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The gas in the apparatus mimicked? 

• Early oceans
• The void of space
• Fusion reactions of stars
• Early Earth's atmosphere

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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Which of the following was probably not present in the atmosphere of the primitive Earth? 

• Methane
• Oxygen
• Water
• Carbon dioxide

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According to the data, the unknown bacterial species is most closely related to...

• Species I
• Species II
• Species III
• Species IV

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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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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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