WIS2552 Exam 1 (Topics 1-8, Global Patterns in Biodiversity) Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) The endosymbiosis theory argues that a ____ relationship was established between two cells. - Correct Answers ✅mutualistic The endosymbiosis theory argues that small prokaryotic cells were engulfed by ____. - Correct Answers ✅larger prokaryotic cells The first hominids appeared at the end of the ____. - Correct Answers ✅Tertiary The first fungi evolved in the ____. - Correct Answers ✅Ordovician Francisco Redi did an experiment to show that meat did not produce maggots by the process of ____. - Correct Answers ✅spontaneous generaiton The ____ is the period of the first vascular plants. - Correct Answers ✅Silurian Protenoid spheres could have evolved via ____. - Correct Answers ✅self assembly 1 / 4
WIS2552 Exam 1 (Topics 1-8, Global Patterns in Biodiversity) Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) ____ was the first period of the Cenozoic. - Correct Answers ✅Tertiary The Pleistocene Epoch ended roughly ____ years ago. - Correct Answers ✅8000 Both mitochondria and chloroplasts have two membranes. - Correct Answers ✅True Chloroplasts are found only in members of the Kingdom Plantae. - Correct Answers ✅False The bony fish evolved in the ____ period of the Paleozoic. - Correct Answers ✅Ordovician Bacteria-like DNA is found in the ____ of eukaryotes. - Correct Answers ✅mitochondria Multicellularity might have evolved by incomplete cell division. - Correct Answers ✅True Stanley Miller was able to produce synthetic ____. - Correct Answers ✅amino acids 2 / 4
WIS2552 Exam 1 (Topics 1-8, Global Patterns in Biodiversity) Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Oparin converted elemental nitrogen, carbon, oxygen and hydrogen to ____. - Correct Answers ✅amino acids DNA in the nuclei of eukaryotic cells is complexed with ____. - Correct Answers ✅proteins Pasteur did an experiment to show that there was no ____. - Correct Answers ✅spontaneous generation Multicellularity might have evolved from coloniality. - Correct Answers ✅True Redi's experiment involved denying ____ access to decaying meat. - Correct Answers ✅flies Pasteur bent the slender necks of glass flasks to prevent ____ from reaching sterile water. - Correct Answers ✅bacteria Stanley Miller combined methane and ____ in water, in his experiment. - Correct Answers ✅ammonia Oparin did experiments in ____. - Correct Answers ✅chemical evolution 3 / 4
WIS2552 Exam 1 (Topics 1-8, Global Patterns in Biodiversity) Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Pigment molecules are found in the ____. - Correct Answers ✅chloroplasts Confiers evolved in the ____. - Correct Answers ✅Permian Some of Pasteur's sterile water flasks are still on display today. - Correct Answers ✅True The first dinosaurs appeared in the ____. - Correct Answers ✅Triassic Prokaryotic cells contain ____. - Correct Answers ✅RNA The ____ era is broken down into Epochs. - Correct Answers ✅Cenozoic ____ are the site for aerobic respiration in eukaryotes. - Correct Answers ✅Mitochondria Most scientists think the Earth is ____ years old. - Correct Answers ✅4.5 Billion Water moves through soil to the groundwater by the process of ____. - Correct Answers ✅percolation
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