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Origin of Life and Evidence of Evolution

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Miller/Urey and other scientists have shown that:
a)
 Life on early Earth required material from space
b)
Cells survived in the primitive atmosphere
c)
Amino acids could be produced from inorganic molecules 
d)
Simple cells can be produced in a laboratory
2.

What were the first organisms on Earth?

a)

plants

b)

fungi

c)

fish

d)

bacteria

3.

Eukaryotes were created by this process:

a)

artificial selection

b)

endosymbiosis

c)

spontaneous generation

d)

aliens

4.

The apparatus in the Miller-Urey experiment was used to mimic what?

a)

proteins

b)

Earth's present conditions

c)

early Earth's conditions

d)

they didn't mean to mimic anything in particular

5.

What did the results of the the Miller and Urey experiment suggest? Life could have began:

a)

in a pond from combinations of chemicals in the atmosphere and energy in amino acids

b)

from RNA and then DNA

c)

from organic compounds (amino acids) that could be made by heating and passing a electrical current, to stimulate lightning, through a mixture of gases.

d)

when eukaryotes evolved from prokaryotes

6.

What were the components of the Early atmosphere?

a)

Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide, Ammonia, methane, hydrogen, water

b)

Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide, Ammonia, amino acids, RNA

c)

Nitrogen, DNA, proteins, Carbon Dioxide, hydrogen, water

7.

The primordial soup hypothesis by Oparin suggests life began:

a)

in a pond from combinations of chemicals in the atmosphere and energy in amino acids

b)

from RNA and DNA

c)

when eukaryotes evolved from prokaryotes

d)

from organic compounds (amino acids) that could be made by heating and passing a electrical current, to stimulate lightning, through a mixture of gases.

8.

The earth is approximately ____________ years old

a)

2022

b)

4.6 million

c)

13.8 billion

d)

4.6 billion

9.
a)

fatty membrane

b)

proteins

c)

amino acids

d)

DNA

10.

What is the RNA world hypothesis and how does it explain the origin of life?

a)

The RNA world hypothesis proposes that life on Earth originated from extraterrestrial RNA molecules.

b)

The RNA world hypothesis suggests that early life on Earth was based on proteins instead of RNA.

c)

The RNA world hypothesis states that RNA molecules were created after the origin of life on Earth.

d)

The RNA world hypothesis suggests that early life on Earth may have been based on RNA molecules instead of DNA.

11.

Structures such as human tail bone and hind legs of whale that serve no purpose in an organism today, but has a purpose in the past is called...

a)

Homologous

b)

Analogous

c)

Fossilized

d)

Vestigial

12.

The similarity in forelimb structure of humans, bats, and moles is evidence that they...

a)

Use their forelimbs in similar ways

b)

Evolved from each other

c)

Are members of the same species

d)

Share a common ancestor

13.

The base sequence in the DNA of chimpanzees and humans is 99% similar. What type of evidence for evolution is this?

a)

molecular evidence

b)

comparing anatomy

c)

comparing embryos

d)

fossil evidence

14.

The amino acid sequence for a protein was compared between three species. Species A and B had 2 differences, Species A and C had 6 difference, & Species B and C had 4 differences. Which species are most closely related?

a)

A and B

b)

A and C

c)

B and C

d)

All species are equally related

15.

_____________ is the study of embryos. It can be used to see how embryo similarities and differences indicate an evolutionary relationship.

a)

Paleontology

b)

Common ancestry

c)

Homologous structure

d)

Embryology

16.

Match the following Evidence of Evolution

a)
1.

Molecular Homology

b)
2.

Anatomical Homology

c)
3.

Biogeography

d)
4.

Fossil Evidence

e)
5.

Embryological

Evidence

17.

What is is the study of how and why plants and animals live where they do?

a)

Evolution

b)

Adaptive Radiation

c)

Biogeography

d)

Biogeology

18.

Most recent ancestral species from which two different species evolved

a)

common ancestor

b)

relative dating

c)

fossil record

d)

analogous structures

19.

What was Pangaea?

a)

An extinct species of fish

b)

A super-continent (all the continents connected)

c)

A large desert that covered all of Africa at one point

d)

A layer of rock in the rock record from 3.4 million years ago

20.

Dawin said all species are related and have a

a)

adaptations

b)

variations

c)

descent with modification

d)

natural selection

e)

common ancestor