Early Earth and Evolutionary Thought

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Wendy McDavid
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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
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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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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