Stanley Miller and Harold Urey Experiment

Which question were the scientists trying to answer with this experiment?

• Where do cells come from?
• What came first the chicken or the egg?
• How are biomolecules formed?
• What gave rise to the Eukaryotic cell?

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

• proteins

• Earth's present conditions

• early Earth's conditions

• they didn't mean to mimic anything in particular

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Miller/Urey and other scientists have shown that:

•  Life on early Earth required material from space
• Cells survived in the primitive atmosphere
• Amino acids could be produced from inorganic molecules 
• Simple cells can be produced in a laboratory

Which do all carbohydrates do for us?

• provide energy
• make muscle
• make brains
• make hair

What type of carbohydrate is this?

• polysaccharide
• disaccharide
• monosaccharide
• it isn't a carbohydrate

How many sugar units make up disaccharides?

• one
• two
• three
• zero

What were Miller and Urey able to demonstrate?

• That organic compounds have CH bonds

• That simple inorganic molecules could combine to form complex organic molecules

• That complex organic compounds could only be made in a laboratory

• That ancient Earth did not have the conditions that would allow for organic molecules to ever exist

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What are the monomers of carbohydrates?

• starches

• monosaccharides

• polymers

• polysaccharides