According to scientists, how old is Earth approximately?

• 4.5 million years
• 4.5 billion years
• 3.5 billion years
• 2.3 billion years

Who is considered the Father of Evolution?

• Mendel
• Malthus
• Darwin
• Watson

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What was the first era on earth that was mainly populated by prokaryotes?

• Precambian
• Crestacious
• Cambian
• Maleus

Which is NOT a proposed way of how life on earth began?

• space
• hydothermal vents
• from the sea
• from deep inside the earth

Which scientists said that biological molecules came from the air and stimulated by lightening?

• Darwin
• Cech and Altman
• Miller and Urey
• Oparin and Haldane

Which scientists said that biological molecules came from the sea and stimulated by lightening?

• Darwin
• Cech and Altman
• Miller and Urey
• Oparin and Haldane

What was wrong with Miller and Urey's experiment?

• there was no ammonia in the air at the time
• there was not enough life
• there was no ozone layer to keep the air on Earth
• there wasn't enough water for this to occur

Which way of measuring the age of something is MORE accurate?

• relative dating
• radiometric dating
• strata dating
• chemical dating

The amount of time it takes for half of a substance to deteriorate is called

• radioactive
• radioisotope
• half life
• stable daughter

The first genetic material was most likely

• DNA
• RNA
• Proteins
• Fatty Acids