This was included in Miller's experiment to replicate the lightning that would have been present in Earth's early atmosphere.
What is electrical current or an electric spark
100
All organic compounds have these two elements
What are carbon and hydrogen?
200
Something that causes a response, or reaction, from a living thing
What is a stimulus
200
The original source of energy for most living things
What is the sun?
200
This provides protection from predators and changes in the environment
What is a shelter? or what is a place to live?
200
Life wasn't created in Miller's experiment, but these were
What are amino acids?
200
The organic compound that is a source of easily accessed energy
What are carbohydrates?
300
The theory that life can just appear from non-living things
What is spontaneous generation?
300
True or False: Single-celled organisms can grow and develop.
What is true?
300
These are two different benefits of water for living things
What is providing a habitat, hydration, providing a place for chemical reactions or removing waste.
300
Name two of the four gases in the atmosphere when earth was first created.
What is methane, hydrogen, ammonia and water vapor
300
Two functions of lipids
What are protection and storage of energy?
400
All chemical reactions in an organism necessary for keeping it alive. Examples include digestion and respiration.
What is metabolism?
400
The 7 characteristics of all living things
What is movement, respiration, sensitivity, growing, reproduction, excretion and nutrition?
400
The difference between sexual and asexual reproduction
What is sexual reproduction involves two parents and asexual reproduction has offspring from a single organism/parent
400
These places could have been where life first began. Scientists who study this topic have evidence that pressure and heat can cause chemical reactions that result in organic compounds.
What are deep sea trenches? or What is the bottom of the ocean?
400
What are two functions of nucleic acids?
What are making proteins and storing genetic information?
500
The process of keeping internal conditions regulated despite the environment. For example, your body temperature will always stay around 98.6 degrees despite it being cold or hot outside.
What is homeostasis?
500
The reason that homeostasis is considered responding to change.
What is a change in the surroundings is the stimulus and how organisms keeps conditions regulated is the response
500
RANDOM: Two pieces of evidence of life on Mars that the Curiosity has gathered since it's been on Mars
What is (multiple answers)
500
This theory is the accepted theory for how life began on our planet.
What is TRICK QUESTION! There is no one accepted theory!! Scientists still don't know for sure how life began
500
Two of the four functions of proteins
What are growth and repair, transportation and storage, regulation of an organism's functions, facilitating chemical reactions, and aiding the immune system?