All embryos exactly look the same during the very early stages of development.

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Cellular complexity state that all living things are composed of either one or more cells that
are highly complex yet organized and enclosed within membranes.

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False
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Evolutionary biologist aims to comprehensively understand what causes evolution

(microevolution) and explain the history of all life forms on Earth specifically, the relatedness
of any species to other species (macroevolution)
Select one:
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False
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Growth and Development explains that living things use energy to grow by metabolizing
compounds by cellular respiration or photosynthesis. Organisms also undergo different life
stages, which follow a systematic process from birth to maturity.

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Homeostasis refers that living things maintain relatively constant internal conditions which
are different from their environment.

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Irritability (response to stimuli) discuss that all organisms are very sensitive to different
stimuli-may it be environmental or physiological. This may refer to any form of response or
movement to stimuli in its own volition.

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Jean Baptiste de Lamarck proposed that if an animal could develop a particular

characteristic in its lifetime, then this trait could be passed on to their offspring and its
succeeding generations.

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 True 

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The geologic time scale is the “calendar” for events in Earth history. It subdivides all time
into named units of abstract time called—in descending order of duration—eons, eras,
periods, epochs, and ages.

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The most direct evidences that evolution had occurred are the fossil records.

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The most popular experiment that had attempted to refute this theory about life's origin
would be the classical experiment of Alexander Oparin.

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True 

False
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The correct answer is 'False'.

All living things are composed of either one or more cells that are highly complex yet
organized and enclosed within membranes.

Select one:
a. Growth and Development 
b. Irritability
c. Cellular complexity

d. Homeostasis
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All organisms are very sensitive to different stimuli-may it be environmental or

physiological. This may refer to any form of response or movement to stimuli in its own
volition.

Select one:
a. Reproduction 
b. Cellular complexity
c. Homeostasis

d. Irritability
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Any change in the allele frequencies in a population due to random sampling is called?

Select one:
a. Mutation 
b. Genetic Drift
c. Recombination’s

d. Gene Flow
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A result of migrating individuals that breed in a new location is called?

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a. Recombination’s 
b. Mutation
c. Genetic Drift

d. Gene Flow
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As the ancestries of organisms increase their ranges to unusual environments, they adapt to
function in those new surroundings. The comparable traits that different populations
inherited from the common ancestors may be modified and diverge from each other.

Select one:
a. Contrivances
b. Vestigial Structures and Organs 
c. None of the above

d. Embryology
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Because of sexual reproduction, new gene combinations are introduced into a population;
thus, it can be an important source of genetic variation.

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a. Mutation
b. Recombination’s
c. Genetic Drift 

d. Gene Flow
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Continuity of life would definitely be impossible without reproduction. We know that no

organism can live forever: however, through this fundamental quality, life continues and
traits are passed on from generation to generation.

Select one:
a. Cellular complexity
b. Irritability
c. Homeostasis
d. Reproduction 
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During vertebrate development, all embryos exactly look the same during the very early
stages of development.

Select one:
a. Contrivances 
b. Vestigial Structures and Organs
c. Embryology

d. None of the above

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Geologic time, the extensive interval of time occupied by the geologic history of Earth.

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a. FALSE 
b. TRUE
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It occurs during the process of DNA replication. These may be caused by a number of
factors, which include but not limited to radiation, viruses, or carcinogens (cancer-causing
materials).

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a. Recombination’s
b. Genetic Drift 
c. Mutation

d. Gene Flow
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Living things maintain relatively constant internal conditions which are different from their
environment.

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a. Growth and Development 
b. Irritability
c. Homeostasis

d. Cellular complexity
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Living things use energy to grow by metabolizing compounds by cellular respiration or

photosynthesis. Organisms also undergo different life stages, which follow a systematic
process from birth to maturity.

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a. Growth and Development 
b. Homeostasis
c. Cellular complexity

d. Irritability
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Since natural selection occurs on the genetic variation that is presently available in a
population, the "best" alternatives cannot constantly be found.

Select one:
a. Embryology
b. None of the above 
c. Vestigial Structures and Organs

d. Contrivances
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Stated are the important principle of the Hardy-Weinberg about equilibrium, EXCEPT?

Select one:
a. Equilibrium allows biologists to determine whether evolutionary agents are already
operating together with the probable agents (as evidenced by the pattern of nonconformity
from the equilibrium).
b. The equilibrium shows the distribution of genotypes to be anticipated for a population at
genetic equilibrium at any value p or q. 
c. The biological definition of a species is a population that can interbreed and produce
fertile offspring.

d. Agent acts to change them, allele frequencies should not change from generation to
generation.
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The most common example of selection in human population is lactose intolerance or the
inability to metabolize lactose from the lack of the required enzyme lactose in the digestive
system.

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a. TRUE

b. FALSE 
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The obsolete idea of this described as the formation of living organism without arising from
a similar organism.

Select one:
a. Deep Hot Biosphere Hypothesis 
b. "Primordial Soup" Theory
c. Spontaneous Generation

d. The Clay Hypothesis

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This hypothesis suggests that the first molecules of life might have met on clay, whose
surfaces not only concentrated these organic compounds together, but also helped
organize them into patterns.

Select one:
a. The Clay Hypothesis
b. "Primordial Soup" Theory 
c. Deep Hot Biosphere Hypothesis

d. Spontaneous Generation
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This model suggests that life did not begin on the surface of the earth but instead in the
porosity of its crust.

Select one:
a. The Clay Hypothesis
b. Spontaneous Generation
c. Deep Hot Biosphere Hypothesis 

d. "Primordial Soup" Theory

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This theory hypothesized that possible conditions on the primitive Earth allows the onset of
chemical reactions that leads to the formation of other complex organic compounds using
simple inorganic substances.

Select one:
a. The Clay Hypothesis
b. Spontaneous Generation 
c. Deep Hot Biosphere Hypothesis

d. "Primordial Soup" Theory

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Which of the following have a very rapid life cycle and can produce millions of new
generation of new bacteria every 24 hours.

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a. plankton
b. bacteria 
c. fungi

d. fossils
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Algae, Fungi, and Plants - International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants
(ICZN).

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False
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A primitive characters known as plesiomorphy; a shared primitive character between two or

more taxa is symplesiomorphy: a derived character is apomorphy a shared derived character
between two or more taxa
is known as a synapomorphy.

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A rooted tree is used when each of the node represents the most recent common ancestor
of the taxa branching from it.

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A taxonomist uses different characters to determine recency of common descent.

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Carl Linne, a Swedish botanist, created this system of nomenclature in 1735 as Systema
naturae.

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In order to construct phylogenies that show evolutionary relationships, systematists

consider the synapomorphies and symplesiomorphies as well as the homoplasies.

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In the cladistic system, organisms are classified exclusively on the basis of how recent are
the descendants from their common ancestor.

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One of the major rules in nomenclature, as guided by ICBN and ICZN, are names should be
written in Latin.

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The application of binomial nomenclature is now governed by various internationally agreed

codes of rules.

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The goal of modern systematists is to construct a monophyletic taxon, which would reflect
true evolutionary relationships by including all descendants of a single common ancestor.

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False
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Algae, Fungi, and Plants - International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants
(ICZN).

Select one:
a. TRUE 
b. FALSE
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The correct answer is: FALSE

All living things are composed of either one or more cells that are highly complex yet
organized and enclosed within membranes.

Select one:
a. Growth and Development
b. Homeostasis 
c. Cellular complexity

d. Irritability
Feedback

The correct answer is: Cellular complexity

All organisms are very sensitive to different stimuli-may it be environmental or
physiological. This may refer to any form of response or movement to stimuli in its own
volition.

Select one:
a. Homeostasis
b. Irritability 
c. Reproduction

d. Cellular complexity
Feedback

The correct answer is: Irritability

Any change in the allele frequencies in a population due to random sampling is called?

Select one:
a. Recombination’s
b. Gene Flow 
c. Genetic Drift

d. Mutation
Feedback

The correct answer is: Genetic Drift

A primitive characters known as plesiomorphy; a shared primitive character between two or
more taxa is symplesiomorphy: a derived character is apomorphy a shared derived character
between two or more taxa is known as a synapomorphy.

Select one:
a. TRUE 

b. FALSE
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The correct answer is: TRUE

A result of migrating individuals that breed in a new location is called?

Select one:
a. Genetic Drift 
b. Gene Flow
c. Mutation

d. Recombination’s
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The correct answer is: Gene Flow

A rooted tree is used when each of the node represents the most recent common ancestor
of the taxa branching from it.

Select one:
a. TRUE 

b. FALSE
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The correct answer is: TRUE

As the ancestries of organisms increase their ranges to unusual environments, they adapt to
function in those new surroundings. The comparable traits that different populations
inherited from the common ancestors may be modified and diverge from each other.

Select one:
a. Embryology
b. Contrivances 
c. Vestigial Structures and Organs

d. None of the above

Feedback

The correct answer is: Vestigial Structures and Organs

A taxonomist uses different characters to determine recency of common descent.

Select one:
a. TRUE 

b. FALSE
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The correct answer is: FALSE

Because of sexual reproduction, new gene combinations are introduced into a population;
thus, it can be an important source of genetic variation.

Select one:
a. Gene Flow 
b. Genetic Drift
c. Mutation

d. Recombination’s
Feedback

The correct answer is: Recombination’s

Carl Linne, a Swedish botanist, created this system of nomenclature in 1735 as Systema
naturae.

Select one:
a. FALSE 

b. TRUE
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The correct answer is: FALSE

Cellular complexity state that all living things are composed of either one or more cells that
are highly complex yet organized and enclosed within membranes.

Select one:
a. TRUE 

b. FALSE
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The correct answer is: FALSE
Continuity of life would definitely be impossible without reproduction. We know that no
organism can live forever: however, through this fundamental quality, life continues and
traits are passed on from generation to generation.

Select one:
a. Cellular complexity
b. Reproduction 
c. Homeostasis

d. Irritability
Feedback

The correct answer is: Reproduction

During vertebrate development, all embryos exactly look the same during the very early
stages of development.

Select one:
a. None of the above
b. Vestigial Structures and Organs
c. Contrivances

d. Embryology 
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The correct answer is: Embryology

Evolutionary biologist aims to comprehensively understand what causes evolution
(microevolution) and explain the history of all life forms on Earth specifically, the relatedness
of any species to other species (macroevolution)

Select one:
a. FALSE 

b. TRUE
Feedback

The correct answer is: TRUE

Geologic time, the extensive interval of time occupied by the geologic history of Earth.

Select one:
a. FALSE
b. TRUE 
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The correct answer is: TRUE

Growth and Development explains that living things use energy to grow by metabolizing
compounds by cellular respiration or photosynthesis. Organisms also undergo different life
stages, which follow a systematic process from birth to maturity.

Select one:
a. FALSE

b. TRUE 
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The correct answer is: TRUE

He argued that the concept of "spontaneous generation" might had happened due to a
"primeval soup" of different organic molecules that could be created in a non-oxygen
atmosphere due to the action of sunlight.

Select one:
a. Alexander Oparin
b. Graham Cains-Smith 
c. Thomas Gold

d. Francesco Redi
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The correct answer is: Alexander Oparin

He demonstrated a simple experiment to disprove such popular belief at that time that
maggots originate from rotting meat.

Select one:
a. Graham Cains-Smith
b. Alexander Oparin
c. Francesco Redi 

d. Thomas Gold
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The correct answer is: Francesco Redi

He intricate organic molecules ascended slowly from a pre-existing, non-organic repetition
platform of silicate crystals in solution.

Select one:
a. Alexander Oparin
b. Thomas Gold 
c. Graham Cains-Smith

d. Graham Cains-Smith
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The correct answer is: Graham Cains-Smith

He wanted to find out whether a sterile nutrient broth could spontaneously generate
microbial life.

Select one:
a. Thomas Gold 
b. Graham Cains-Smith
c. Francesco Redi

d. Louis Pasteur
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The correct answer is: Louis Pasteur

Homeostasis refers that living things maintain relatively constant internal conditions which
are different from their environment.

Select one:
a. FALSE 

b. TRUE
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The correct answer is: TRUE

In order to construct phylogenies that show evolutionary relationships, systematists

consider the synapomorphies and symplesiomorphies as well as the homoplasies.

Select one:
a. FALSE 

b. TRUE
Feedback

The correct answer is: TRUE

Input from new technologies provides new information in the similarities and differences
among taxa that leads to revision, lumping, or splitting a taxon.

Select one:
a. Misinterpreted data
b. Bio data 
c. New taxa

d. New data
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The correct answer is: New data

In the cladistic system, organisms are classified exclusively on the basis of how recent are
the descendants from their common ancestor.

Select one:
a. TRUE

b. FALSE
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The correct answer is: TRUE

Irritability (response to stimuli) discuss that all organisms are very sensitive to different
stimuli-may it be environmental or physiological. This may refer to any form of response or
movement to stimuli in its own volition.

Select one:
a. FALSE

b. TRUE
Feedback

The correct answer is: TRUE

It is a method that groups organisms based on their shared derived characters.

Select one:
a. Cladistics system
b. The Clay Hypothesis
c. "Primordial Soup" Theory

d. Spontaneous Generation
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The correct answer is: Cladistics system

It occurs during the process of DNA replication. These may be caused by a number of
factors, which include but not limited to radiation, viruses, or carcinogens (cancer-causing
materials).

Select one:
a. Genetic Drift
b. Recombination’s
c. Gene Flow

d. Mutation
Feedback

The correct answer is: Mutation

Jean Baptiste de Lamarck proposed that if an animal could develop a particular
characteristic in its lifetime, then this trait could be passed on to their offspring and its
succeeding generations.

Select one:
a. FALSE

b. TRUE
Feedback

The correct answer is: TRUE

Living things maintain relatively constant internal conditions which are different from their
environment.

Select one:
a. Growth and Development
b. Homeostasis
c. Cellular complexity

d. Irritability
Feedback
The correct answer is: Homeostasis
Living things use energy to grow by metabolizing compounds by cellular respiration or
photosynthesis. Organisms also undergo different life stages, which follow a systematic
process from birth to maturity.

Select one:
a. Cellular complexity
b. Homeostasis
c. Growth and Development

d. Irritability
Feedback

The correct answer is: Growth and Development

One of the major rules in nomenclature, as guided by ICBN and ICZN, are names should be
written in Latin.

Select one:
a. TRUE

b. FALSE
Feedback

The correct answer is: FALSE

Since natural selection occurs on the genetic variation that is presently available in a
population, the "best" alternatives cannot constantly be found.

Select one:
a. Vestigial Structures and Organs
b. Contrivances
c. None of the above

d. Embryology
Feedback

The correct answer is: Contrivances

Stated are the important principle of the Hardy-Weinberg about equilibrium, EXCEPT?

Select one:
a. Equilibrium allows biologists to determine whether evolutionary agents are already
operating together with the probable agents (as evidenced by the pattern of nonconformity
from the equilibrium).
b. Agent acts to change them, allele frequencies should not change from generation to
generation.
c. The biological definition of a species is a population that can interbreed and produce
fertile offspring.

d. The equilibrium shows the distribution of genotypes to be anticipated for a population at

genetic equilibrium at any value p or q.
Feedback

The correct answer is: The biological definition of a species is a population that can
interbreed and produce fertile offspring.
Taxa is connected one at a time until all the taxa is included in the tree. When added, each
taxon is joined to the tree to minimize the number of character state changes (Lipscomb,
1998).

Select one:
a. Polyphyly
b. The Wagner Tree
c. Monophyly

d. The Hennig Tree

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The correct answer is: The Wagner Tree

The application of binomial nomenclature is now governed by various internationally agreed

codes of rules.

Select one:
a. TRUE

b. FALSE
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The correct answer is: TRUE

The discovery of tiny filamental structures that are similar to bacteria called nanobes in deep
rocks in the early 90s supported such claim.

Select one:
a. Francesco Redi
b. Alexander Oparin
c. Graham Cains-Smith

d. Thomas Gold
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The correct answer is: Thomas Gold

The DNA that was isolated is then amplified using the polymerase chain reaction. This
technology is actually about the principle that you can exponentially multiply a single copy
of your DNA.

Select one:
a. DNA Isolation
b. DNA Sequencing
c. Sequence alignment

d. Amplification of the DNA

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The correct answer is: Amplification of the DNA

The following are living terrestrial vertebrates EXCEPT one

Select one:
a. crocodiles
b. humans
c. turtles

d. rabbit
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The correct answer is: crocodiles

The geologic time scale is the “calendar” for events in Earth history. It subdivides all time
into named units of abstract time called—in descending order of duration—eons, eras,
periods, epochs, and ages.

Select one:
a. TRUE

b. FALSE
Feedback

The correct answer is: TRUE

The goal of modern systematists is to construct a monophyletic taxon, which would reflect
true evolutionary relationships by including all descendants of a single common ancestor.

Select one:
a. TRUE

b. FALSE
Feedback

The correct answer is: TRUE

The most common example of selection in human population is lactose intolerance or the
inability to metabolize lactose from the lack of the required enzyme lactose in the digestive
system.

Select one:
a. TRUE

b. FALSE
Feedback

The correct answer is: TRUE

The most direct evidences that evolution had occurred are the fossil records.

Select one:
a. FALSE

b. TRUE
Feedback

The correct answer is: TRUE

The most popular experiment that had attempted to refute this theory about life's origin
would be the classical experiment of Alexander Oparin.

Select one:
a. FALSE

b. TRUE
Feedback

The correct answer is: FALSE

The obsolete idea of this described as the formation of living organism without arising from
a similar organism.

Select one:
a. Spontaneous Generation
b. The Clay Hypothesis
c. "Primordial Soup" Theory

d. Deep Hot Biosphere Hypothesis

Feedback

The correct answer is: Spontaneous Generation

The obsolete idea of this described as the formation of living organism without arising from
a similar organism.

Select one:
a. The Clay Hypothesis
b. "Primordial Soup" Theory
c. Spontaneous Generation

d. Deep Hot Biosphere Hypothesis

Feedback

The correct answer is: Spontaneous Generation

This hypothesis suggests that the first molecules of life might have met on clay, whose
surfaces not only concentrated these organic compounds together, but also helped
organize them into patterns.

Select one:
a. The Clay Hypothesis
b. Spontaneous Generation
c. "Primordial Soup" Theory

d. Deep Hot Biosphere Hypothesis

Feedback

The correct answer is: The Clay Hypothesis

This model suggests that life did not begin on the surface of the earth but instead in the
porosity of its crust.

Select one:
a. Deep Hot Biosphere Hypothesis
b. The Clay Hypothesis
c. Spontaneous Generation

d. "Primordial Soup" Theory

Feedback

The correct answer is: Deep Hot Biosphere Hypothesis

This theory hypothesized that possible conditions on the primitive Earth allows the onset of
chemical reactions that leads to the formation of other complex organic compounds using
simple inorganic substances.

Select one:
a. The Clay Hypothesis
b. Deep Hot Biosphere Hypothesis
c. "Primordial Soup" Theory

d. Spontaneous Generation
Feedback

The correct answer is: "Primordial Soup" Theory