Biology Honors Evolution Questions
with Accurate Answers
who is the father of evolution - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Charles Darwin
According to science, how old is the Earth - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅4.6 billion years
old
What are the 7 characteristics of living organisms - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅respond to
stimuli, metabolism, homeostasis, reproduce, grow & develop, adapt, made up of cells
what are the 4 macromolecules that make up living organisms - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, carbohydrates
define spontaneous generation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅theory that living organisms
came to life spontaneously form nonliving matter
explain Redi's experiment to discredit spontaneous generation - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅had 3 flasks with rotting meat; one was open and the flies could smell and
touch the meat (had maggots), another flask had mesh over the opening so the flies could smell
but not touch the meat (eggs were laid on top of the mesh), 3rd flask had stopper (flies could not
smell nor touch the meat)
explain spallanzani's experiment to discredit spontaneous generation - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅had broth in straight necked flasks, boiled the broth to kill any
microorganisms, left some open and put stoppers on the other group. Only the group that was
open grew bacteria
Name the scientists that discredited spontaneous generation once and for all - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Louis Pasteur
, briefly describe Pasteur's experiment that discredited spontaneous generation - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅used curve-necked flasks with broth, so the air could go in and out of the
flask, but the bacteria could not get past the curved part of the neck
define principle of biogenesis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅all living organisms come from
other living organisms
who came up with the primordial soup model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅oparin and
haldane in 1920
describe the primordial soup model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the primordial soup was
the Earth's early oceans that contained molecules, these molecules reacted together using energy
from solar radiation, volcanic eruptions, or lightning to create organic compounds=molecules of
life
Oparin and haldane believed the Earth's early atmosphere lacked oxygen and rather contained
which gases - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅ammonia, hydrogen water vapor, methane
Name the scientists that actually tested the primordial soup model - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅miller and urey
briefly describe miller and urey's experiment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the put the
proposed gases (hydrogen, methane, ammonia) into an apparatus, zapped it with electricity to
simulate lightning, and looked at that compounds that formed (amino acids, urea, lactic acid)
in miller & Urey's experiment, if lactic acid was formed what process must have been
happening? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅fermentation,meaning ATP was being made
without the presence of oxygen
in miller & Urey's experiment, they found cytosine and uracil, what does this say about nucleic
acids - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅that RNA came before DNA
with Accurate Answers
who is the father of evolution - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Charles Darwin
According to science, how old is the Earth - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅4.6 billion years
old
What are the 7 characteristics of living organisms - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅respond to
stimuli, metabolism, homeostasis, reproduce, grow & develop, adapt, made up of cells
what are the 4 macromolecules that make up living organisms - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, carbohydrates
define spontaneous generation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅theory that living organisms
came to life spontaneously form nonliving matter
explain Redi's experiment to discredit spontaneous generation - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅had 3 flasks with rotting meat; one was open and the flies could smell and
touch the meat (had maggots), another flask had mesh over the opening so the flies could smell
but not touch the meat (eggs were laid on top of the mesh), 3rd flask had stopper (flies could not
smell nor touch the meat)
explain spallanzani's experiment to discredit spontaneous generation - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅had broth in straight necked flasks, boiled the broth to kill any
microorganisms, left some open and put stoppers on the other group. Only the group that was
open grew bacteria
Name the scientists that discredited spontaneous generation once and for all - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Louis Pasteur
, briefly describe Pasteur's experiment that discredited spontaneous generation - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅used curve-necked flasks with broth, so the air could go in and out of the
flask, but the bacteria could not get past the curved part of the neck
define principle of biogenesis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅all living organisms come from
other living organisms
who came up with the primordial soup model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅oparin and
haldane in 1920
describe the primordial soup model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the primordial soup was
the Earth's early oceans that contained molecules, these molecules reacted together using energy
from solar radiation, volcanic eruptions, or lightning to create organic compounds=molecules of
life
Oparin and haldane believed the Earth's early atmosphere lacked oxygen and rather contained
which gases - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅ammonia, hydrogen water vapor, methane
Name the scientists that actually tested the primordial soup model - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅miller and urey
briefly describe miller and urey's experiment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅the put the
proposed gases (hydrogen, methane, ammonia) into an apparatus, zapped it with electricity to
simulate lightning, and looked at that compounds that formed (amino acids, urea, lactic acid)
in miller & Urey's experiment, if lactic acid was formed what process must have been
happening? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅fermentation,meaning ATP was being made
without the presence of oxygen
in miller & Urey's experiment, they found cytosine and uracil, what does this say about nucleic
acids - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅that RNA came before DNA
