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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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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?

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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

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The electrical sparks mimicked?

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

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What was the product of the Miller-Urey Experiment?

• Simple amino acids
• Simple nucleotides
• Simple lipids
• Simple monosaccarides

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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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Which of the following terms is another name for spontaneous generation?

• Abiogenesis
• Biogenesis
• Chemical evolution
• Organic evolution

Which concept refers to life arising from non-living molecules?

• Organic evolution
• Chemical evolution
• Chemosynthesis
• Photosynthesis

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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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