Early Earth and Evolutionary Thought

Early Earth and Evolutionary Thought

9th Grade

10 Qs

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Early Earth and Evolutionary Thought

Early Earth and Evolutionary Thought

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Biology

9th Grade

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Wendy McDavid

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10 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What would you expect the first step to be in the emergence of life from nonliving matter?

Simple organic molecule formation.

Eukaryotes engulf photosynthetic prokaryotes.

Strands of DNA coiling around histones to form nucleosomes.

Prokaryotic cells forming from early Earth's atmosphere.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What modern cells do scientists believe to be close relatives of the Earth's first cells?

fungi

protists

bacteria

viruses

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What do scientist believe the first genetic material was in the first cells?

ribosomes

DNA

RNA

ATP

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the importance of the Miller-Urey experiment?

It demonstrated the life came from Mars.

It demonstrated that free oxygen can come from volcano's.

It demonstrated that life evolved from viruses.

It demonstrated that simple organic molecules could form within a primordial soup.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Evidence of early bacterial life is found within:

DNA

stromatolites

Martian rock

meteorites

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which theory proposes that the ancestors of eukaryotic cells lived in association with prokaryotic cells?  (This explains how cells could have gained a mitochondria and/or chloroplasts.


Theory of Evolution

Theory of Endosymbiosis

Theory of Spontaneous Generation

Theory of Biogenesis

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which early scientist proposed that species change because the had a "need" to change.

Charles Darwin

James Hutton

Baptiste de Lamarck

Carolus Linnaeus

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