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Origin of Life and Properties of Living Organisms

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Origin of Life and Properties of Living Organisms

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What did Miller and Urey's experiment simulate and produce?

Vesicles that grow and divide

Amino acids, the building blocks of life (correct)

Early bacteria evolution

Basic mineral formation

Where could additional organic molecules have come from?

Underwater volcanoes

High mountain peaks

Desert sand dunes

Deep-sea hydrothermal vents (correct)

What is the hyper-cycle model an explanation for?

RNA enzyme discovery

Bacterial evolution

Origin of protocells (correct)

Minimal characteristics of a cell

Which hypothesis supposes that in the first living organisms, nucleic acids played informational and catalytic roles?

RNA world hypothesis Signup and view all the answers

What are scientists attempting to understand about early cellular evolution using genome analysis and experimental manipulations?

Minimal characteristics needed for cell operation Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT a property of living organisms?

Ability to defy laws of physics Signup and view all the answers

What does the acronym LUCA stand for?

Last Universal Common Ancestor Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following statements about LUCA is correct?

LUCA represents a point in the history of life beyond which phylogenetic analysis cannot see. Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following fields of study is NOT essential for understanding the origin of life?

Philosophy Signup and view all the answers

Who proposed the prebiotic soup theory for the origin of life?

Oparin and Haldane Signup and view all the answers