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Life and Its Beginning

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 4mins

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Class
Date
1.

What experiment convinced most scientists that spontaneous generation could not occur?

a)

Redi's experiment

b)

Pasteur's experiment

c)

Spallanzani's experiment

d)

Needham's experiment

2.

What experiment convinced the believers of spontaneous generation that air was needed for spontaneous generation?

a)

Redi's experiment

b)

Pasteur's experiment

c)

Spallanzani's experiment

d)

Needham's experiment

3.

This experiment attempted to disproved spontaneous generation by using maggots that arose in decaying meat.

a)

Redi's experiment

b)

Pasteur's experiment

c)

Spallanzani's experiment

d)

Needham's experiment

4.

It refers to the theory that explains that life appeared from non-living material.

a)

abiogenesis

b)

biogenesis

c)

panspermia

d)

divine creation

5.

This belief stated that life arose from nothing but the power of a divine being.

a)

biogenesis

b)

abiogenesis

c)

creationism

d)

primordial soup

6.

This scientist popularized the idea that life arose outside Earth.

a)

Miller

b)

Arrhenius

c)

Urey

d)

Pasteur

7.

What do you call the flask used in Louis pasteur's experiment?

a)

Erlenmeyer flask

b)

Swan-neck flask

c)

Goose flask

d)

Beaker

8.

This hypothesis deals with the idea that complex biological compounds were randomly assembled by chance in an organic broth.

a)

Miller-Urey Hypothesis

b)

Creationism

c)

Panspermia

d)

Primordial Soup

9.

Why is it that until the present time, there is no definite explanation on the first appearance of life on Earth?

a)

There is no account about what happened 4.5 billion years ago.

b)

People were not curious about the beginning of life.

c)

There is already a valid explanation about the beginning of life.

d)

Life existed prior to universe.

10.

What is the main idea of the lesson?

a)

There is no account about what happened 4.5 billion years ago

b)

All organisms share common characteristics that guide in defining what life means.

c)

The origin of life is viewed from different perspective.

d)

Scientists tried their explain the existence of life.