Origins 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

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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?

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 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

Which type of cell came first?

• Eukaryotic
• Prokaryotic
• Plant
• Both Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic cells evolved around the same time

The diagram shows fossils in different rock layers. Which of these statements about the age of these fossils is most likely correct?

• Fossil A and C are the same age
  
• Fossil B is older than fossil C
• Fossils A is older than fossil B
• Fossil D is older than fossil C

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Based upon the conditions of the early Earth, which forms of live most likely appeared first?

• Prokaryotic and aerobic
• Prokaryotic and anaerobic 
• Eukaryotic and aerobic
• Eukaryotic and anaerobic

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

The theory of Endosymbiosis explains...

• The origin of eukaryotes
• How species develop
• How bacteria evolved
• Why cells rely on one another