WorksheetsUnit 01 Exam - Origin of Life Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 18mins
This theory of the origin of life states that living things come from nonliving matter.
spontaneous generation
bubble hypothesis
Primordial Soup theory
Meteorite theory
Louis Pasteur used a goose-neck flask and demonstrated what?
life spontaneously appears
life begins from other organisms
DNA is the building block
Amino acids can be created artificially
lightening and solar radiation provided enough energy to transform atmospheric chemicals into biomolecules, which then accumulated in the massive ocean covering the earth’s surface.
primordial soup theory
meteorite theory
bubble theory
spontaneous generation
Which scientist was one of the first to disprove spontaneous generation by showing that flies were not created by meat?
Spallanzani
Pasteur
Redi
Needham
Which of the following is the natural law that states that living organisms come only from other living organisms and are not created from nonliving materials?
evolution
oxidation
biogenesis
abiogenesis
Fossil evidence suggests life on Earth arrived
1.5 bya
4.6 bya
3.8-3.5 bya
4-5 bya
Earth's early atmosphere had no
gasses
volcanoes
water vapor
free oxygen
The first prokaryotes did not require oxygen and were
anaerobicc
aerobic
both aerobic an anaerobic
This bacteria formed 3.5 bya and was photosynthetic and release oxygen into the atmosphere.
cyanobacteria
E. coli
archae bacteria
mitochondria
Mitochondria and chloroplasts are thought to be ________________________ cells engulfed by a larger one.
plants
prokaryotic
eikaryotic
viruses
Which types of organisms developed first due to the early environmental conditions on Earth?
prokaryotic and aerobic
prokaryotic and anaerobic
eukaryotic and aerobic
eukaryotic and anaerobic
The diagram below shows a proposed theory of the origin of eukaryotic cells, called endosymbiosis.
Which of the following explains why cells that contained mitochondria-like organelles had an evolutionary advantage?
They were able to photosynthesize
They had more DNA
They were able to make more use of available energy
They were immune to bacterial invasion.
Which scientist(s) came up with the hypothesis that life formed gradually from nonliving materials over a long period of time?
Miller and Urey
Sidney Fox
Pasteur and Redi
Oparin and Haldane
In Stanley Miller's and Harold Urey's experiment what chemical was intentionally left out?
oxygen
hydrogen
methane
ammonia
According to most scientists, which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the first cell(s)
aerobic
prokaryotic
anaerobic
heterotrophic
How are mitochondria and chloroplasts like bacteria cells?
They divide by meiosis
They can make their own food
They have the same membrane-bound organelles
They contain their own DNA
What two ways do autotrophs create their own food
photosynthesis
oxidation
chemosynthesis
spontaneous generation
