
Biology activity, aimed at second-year high school students, with questions developed about the origins of life.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
1) The first researcher to demonstrate that living beings came from preexisting ones was:
a) Spallanzani
b) Miller
c) Pasteur
d) Oparin
e) Redi
2) To explain the origin of life, Oparin:
a) Demonstrated the formation of organic compounds from gases
b) Proposed a pre-cell model formed by macromolecules
c) Demonstrated the formation of proteins from amino acids
d) Proposed an autotroph model
e) Demonstrated that living beings come from other preexisting
3) With his experiments, Fox was able to demonstrate that:
a) Ammonia, methane and water subjected to electrical discharges form organic compounds
b) The first living beings were heterotrophs
c) In primitive seas, coacervates were formed
d) Dry and heated amino acids form polypeptide chains
e) The primitive seas were a "soup" where the first organisms were formed
4) Oxygen began to form and accumulate in the primitive atmosphere after its appearance:
a) Macromolecules
b) Of heterotrophs
c) Anaerobic autotrophs
d) aerobic autotrophs
e) Aerobic coacervates
5) Check the correct statement
a) Microorganisms can be spontaneously generated from meat extracts
b) Pasteur demonstrated that life was never formed from inanimate matter
c) Redi demonstrated the possibility of organic substances being produced independently of the activity of living beings
d) Miller built an apparatus to demonstrate the appearance of the first living beings on the early Earth
e) In the primitive atmosphere there were molecules of methane, ammonia, water, hydrogen and oxygen
Per Camila Farias.
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