Chapter 30 Quiz 1

The Miller-Urey experiment proved that living things come from non-living things spontaneously.

• True

• False

In the Miller-Urey experiment, heat and electric sparks were used to induce chemical reactions in the mixture of methane, ammonia, oxygen and water vapour.

• True

• False

In the Miller-Urey experiment, organic molecules such as amino acids, sugars and nucleic acids were produced from inorganic substances.

• True

• False

The Miller-Urey experiment proved that various biomolecules can interact and form the first single-celled organism.

• True

• False

All fossils are the remains of dead animals.

• True

• False

The fossil record shows that organisms have evolved from simple to more complex forms.

• True

• False

The fossil record is incomplete because only vertebrates can be fossilized.

• True

• False

The human arms and the bat’s wings are homologous structures.

• True

• False

Comparative embryology is the study of embryos between different individuals of the same species.

• True

• False

Organisms that share more similarities in the base sequence of DNA have a closer evolutionary relationship than those with fewer similarities.

• True

• False