The goal of learning about biology through the lens of other sciences is to: - gain new insights
into biology, become a more judicious citizen, and recognize that the world does not work in isolated
boxes.
The earliest Earth as not as we know it. Instead what conditions reigned? - reddish yellow...
The goal of learning about biology through the lens of other sciences is to: - ✔✔gain new insights
into biology, become a more judicious citizen, and recognize that the world does not work in isolated
boxes.
The earliest Earth as not as we know it. Instead what conditions reigned? - ✔✔reddish yellow
sky, molten surface, and bombarded by meteorites.
During its early formation, another planet slammed into Earth. Relatively how big was this other
planet? - ✔✔Size of Mars
Scientists hypothesize that the first life had to use which of these gases for energy? -
✔✔Hydrogen Sulfide
What are the basic building of life? - ✔✔Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen.
Chemical evidence posits the first life could have begun as early as: - ✔✔3.8 billion years ago
What building blocks of life have been found after meteorite impacts? - ✔✔Amino Acids
Smaller molecules in our body require what to become larger molecules? - ✔✔Energy
Where could life have been formed on the early Earth? - ✔✔Hydrothermal vents, meteorite
impacts, underground, and possible other places.
These modern organisms closely resemble some of the first photosynthesizing organisms on Earth. -
✔✔Stromatolites.
, The waste product of photosynthesis created what modern-day valuable economic resource? -
✔✔Iron Ore.
What made it difficult for life to begin on Earth in the first 500 million years of Earth's birth? - ✔✔The
great bombardment
All life relies on the same basic biochemicals to survive. And they possess the same foundational
means of replicating and processing these biochemicals through DNA. This is evidence to support what:
- ✔✔Shared ancestry for all life on Earth (Common ancestor).
Proteins are so very important and so very versatile because: - ✔✔They fold into different
patterns dependent on molecular make-up.
These modern organismal structures are very similar to some of the earliest fossils discovered on
Earth. - ✔✔Stromatolites
This is the name of the process by which organisms became embedded within one another to form -
✔✔endosymbiogenesis
What is the most important thing that allows ecosystems to function? - ✔✔energy
When we eat food or burn fossil fuels we release energy that derived from where? - ✔✔sun
How do ecosystems affect CO2 in the atmosphere? - ✔✔fungi release CO2, animals increase
CO2, plants decrease CO2
What system is the largest reservoir of carbon on Earth? - ✔✔marine
Biomagnification is a process of concentrated chemicals accumulating through which of these?
- ✔✔trophic levels
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