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WorksheetsLife and Its Beginning
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 4mins
What experiment convinced most scientists that spontaneous generation could not occur?
Redi's experiment
Pasteur's experiment
Spallanzani's experiment
Needham's experiment
What experiment convinced the believers of spontaneous generation that air was needed for spontaneous generation?
Redi's experiment
Pasteur's experiment
Spallanzani's experiment
Needham's experiment
This experiment attempted to disproved spontaneous generation by using maggots that arose in decaying meat.
Redi's experiment
Pasteur's experiment
Spallanzani's experiment
Needham's experiment
It refers to the theory that explains that life appeared from non-living material.
abiogenesis
biogenesis
panspermia
divine creation
This belief stated that life arose from nothing but the power of a divine being.
biogenesis
abiogenesis
creationism
primordial soup
This scientist popularized the idea that life arose outside Earth.
Miller
Arrhenius
Urey
Pasteur
What do you call the flask used in Louis pasteur's experiment?
Erlenmeyer flask
Swan-neck flask
Goose flask
Beaker
This hypothesis deals with the idea that complex biological compounds were randomly assembled by chance in an organic broth.
Miller-Urey Hypothesis
Creationism
Panspermia
Primordial Soup
Why is it that until the present time, there is no definite explanation on the first appearance of life on Earth?
There is no account about what happened 4.5 billion years ago.
People were not curious about the beginning of life.
There is already a valid explanation about the beginning of life.
Life existed prior to universe.
What is the main idea of the lesson?
There is no account about what happened 4.5 billion years ago
All organisms share common characteristics that guide in defining what life means.
The origin of life is viewed from different perspective.
Scientists tried their explain the existence of life.
