Origin of Life Test

What is the Third Part of the Cell Theory?

• Cells come from the atmosphere

• Cells come from non-living material

• Cells spontaneously generate

• Cells come from pre-existing cells

About how old is the Earth?

• 3.5 billion years old

• 4.5 billion years old

• 6.5 billion years old

• 5.5 billion years old

What is the Primordial Soup Hypothesis?

• The origin of life occurred in a volcano

• The origin of life occurred in outer space

• The origin of life occurred in a glacier

• The origin of life occurred in a warm body of water

What did the Miller-Urey Experiment prove?

• The creation of life from non-living materials

• The origin of life in outer space

• The existence of pre-existing cells

• The existence of spontaneous generation

What is the RNA World Hypothesis?

• RNA and DNA are the same

• RNA and DNA are unrelated

• RNA existed before DNA

• DNA existed before RNA

What is LUCA?

• The Last Universal Common Ancestor

• The first animal on Earth

• The first human being

• The first plant on Earth

What is the second type of cell on Earth?

• Prokaryote (archaebacteria)

• Eukaryote (plant cell)

• Cyanobacteria

• Eukaryote (animal cell)

What is the purpose of the Endosymbiotic Theory?

• To explain the origin of the moon

• To explain the origin and evolution of the mitochondria and chloroplast

• To explain the origin of the sun

• To explain the origin of the Earth

What PROCESS created the ancestor of all fungi and animals?

• Mitochondria

• Endosymbiosis 1

• Cyanobacteria

• Chloroplast

What PROCESS created the ancestor of plants?

• Aerobic bacteria

• Cyanobacteria

• Mitochondria

• Endosymbiosis 2