Origins of life quiz

Miller and Urey designed an experiment that_____

• Created the first bacteria

• Made the first human

• Recreated conditions on early earth

• Grew maggots from meat

Nitrogen, water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane

• early Earth's atmosphere

• Ms. Potosme's favorite elements

• today's atmosphere

• organelles of a cell

Chemical units called ____________, were discovered in MIller and Urey's experiment.

• Sugar

• Lipids

• Phosphorous

• Amino Acids

Eukaryotes are thought to have evolved from...

• Eukaryotic Organisms

• The ocean

• Prokaryotic Organisms

• Poofing from thin air

What were the results of the Miller Urey experiment?

• Mitochondria originated through a symbiotic event

• Organic molecules like amino acids could form on early Earth

• Life could not spontaneously generate

• The Earth was covered in a primordial soup before life began

Chemical evolution involved?

• The synthesis of bacteria

• The synthesis of organic molecules (carbon as the backbone)

• The synthesis of collagen

• The synthesis of proteins

What was the atmosphere (air) like on the early earth?

• the same gases as today

• abundant oxygen

• fresh

• no free oxygen

Living things come from other living things.

• Biogenetics

• Biogenesis

• Biogenevive

• Biosynthetic Theory

What hypothesis says that the first life started in water where chemicals came together?

• Primordial Salad

• The Big Bang

• Primordial Soup

• Early life hypothesis

The endosymbiont theory says that larger cells engulfed prokaryotic bacteria which became ____.

• A mitochondria and chloroplast.

• A nucleus and cell membrane.

• A lysosome and vacuole.

• A golgi body and endoplasmic reticulum.