Stanley Miller and Harold Urey Experiment

This experiment was conducted by the scientists:

• Stanley Miller and Harold Urey
• Harold Urey and Albert Einstine
• Harrison Ford and Denzel Washington
• 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?
• What came first the chicken or the egg?
• 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
• Earth's present conditions
• early Earth's conditions
• they didn't mean to mimic anything in particular

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The gas in the apparatus mimicked? 

• space
• time
• stars
• atmosphere

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The electrical sparks mimicked?

• heat waves
• lightening
• volcano
• hurricane

The water used in the apparatus was used to mimic what part of early Earth?

• sea
• swimming pool
• ocean
• rain

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What was the result of the Miller-Urey Experiment?

• amino acids
• nucleotides
• lipids
• glucose

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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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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 of the following was probably not present in the atmosphere of the primitive Earth? 

• Methane
• Oxygen
• Water
• Carbon dioxide

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