Biology Olympiad- Origin of Life

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To help revise for the Origins of Life section of the Biology Olympiad
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Pregunta 1

Pregunta
How long ago was the Earth formed from a cloud of dust particles surrounding the sun?
Respuesta
  • 200-300 million years ago
  • 480 billion years ago
  • 4500-5000 million years ago

Pregunta 2

Pregunta
How was the core of our Earth formed?
Respuesta
  • Heat generated by gravitational compression and radioactive decay melted the interior
  • The temperature from the sun was so hot that the rock formations on Earth simply melted inwards
  • Combustion of argon

Pregunta 3

Pregunta
What molten elements are the Earth's core made out of?
Respuesta
  • Nickel and Iron
  • Hydrogen and Oxygen
  • Magnesium and Nitrogen

Pregunta 4

Pregunta
The Earth's liquid mantle is made out of silicates of which two elements?
Respuesta
  • Silicon and Calcium
  • Magnesium and Iron
  • Carbon and Nitrogen

Pregunta 5

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What is the Earth's crust made of?
Respuesta
  • Light silicate compounds
  • Only sedimentary rock
  • Molten lava

Pregunta 6

Pregunta
Which gases were present in the first atmosphere of Earth?
Respuesta
  • Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, methane, nitrogen and hydrogen sulphide.
  • Hydrogen, water vapour, methane, ammonia, nitrogen and hydrogen sulphide.
  • Hydrogen, carbon, water vapour, methane and nitrogen.

Pregunta 7

Pregunta
Which property did the early atmosphere have?
Respuesta
  • Photolysis properties
  • Oxidising properties
  • Reducing properties

Pregunta 8

Pregunta
What was missing from the Earth's early atmosphere?
Respuesta
  • Oxygen
  • Nitrogen
  • Water Vapour

Pregunta 9

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Where were most of the early useful molecules thought to have been created?
Respuesta
  • In shallow oceans
  • In the depths of igneous rock
  • In the atmosphere

Pregunta 10

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Who conducted the 'Primordial Soup' experiment in 1953?
Respuesta
  • Stanley Müller
  • Henry Maller
  • Stanley Miller

Pregunta 11

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What was the aim of the 'primordial Soup' experiment?
Respuesta
  • To recreate the explosions that began the Earth
  • To recreate the conditions of Earth before life evolved
  • To observe how gases combusted

Pregunta 12

Pregunta
In the first Primordial Soup experiment, which organic compounds were in the solution?
Respuesta
  • Ribose, Adenine, Hydrochloric Acid and Urea.
  • Deoxyribose, Glucose, Carbolic Acid and Iron Phosphates.
  • Glycine, Alanine, Lactic Acid and Urea.

Pregunta 13

Pregunta
Which molecules have been created from recent recreations of the 'Primordial Soup' experiment?
Respuesta
  • Ribose, deoxyribose, purines, pyrimidines and nucleotides.
  • RNA, water, hexose, phosphoric acid and nucleotides.
  • DNA, water, purines, pyrimidines and hexose.

Pregunta 14

Pregunta
How do you create ATP from purines?
Respuesta
  • Combine ribose and phosphates to adenine under UV light
  • Combine deoxyribose and phosphates to adenine with an electrical charge sent through it.
  • Combine ribose and phosphates to ammonia under UV light.

Pregunta 15

Pregunta
What is the name given to large aggregations of molecules?
Respuesta
  • Cofactor Droplets
  • Coacervate Droplets
  • Cervical Droplets

Pregunta 16

Pregunta
How were the droplets made by Oparin (which resembled living cells) created in the lab?
Respuesta
  • Dissolving glycerol and polysaccharides in water
  • Dissolving gelatin and proteins in water
  • Dissolving gelatin protein and polysaccharides in water

Pregunta 17

Pregunta
How did the droplets made by Oparin resemble living cells?
Respuesta
  • They acquired a membrane-like lipid coating
  • They developed nuclei
  • They could fully synthesis proteins

Pregunta 18

Pregunta
How did Oparin's stable droplets grow?
Respuesta
  • Mitosis
  • Absorbing chemicals from less stable droplets
  • Endocytosis

Pregunta 19

Pregunta
The first living cells are thought to have arisen from which kind of droplets?
Respuesta
  • Coacervate droplets that contained polynucleotides
  • Coacervate droplets that contained polysaccharides
  • Coacervate droplets that contained protiens

Pregunta 20

Pregunta
Which of the following is a reason that some of the first living cells broke down?
Respuesta
  • Not enough carbon dioxide to photosynthesis
  • Not enough oxygen to respire
  • Short supply of adenosine triphosphate

Pregunta 21

Pregunta
What is the definition of glycolysis?
Respuesta
  • The breakdown of glucose to provide energy for the production of ATP
  • The breakdown of glucose to provide energy for the production of proteins
  • The anabolism of glucose to provide energy

Pregunta 22

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The first organisms were:
Respuesta
  • Heterotropic and aerobic
  • Heterotrophic and anaerobic
  • Homotrophic and aerobic

Pregunta 23

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The first cells had nucleic acids organised into coding systems for protein synthesis but they did not have...
Respuesta
  • DNA
  • Nuclear membranes
  • Ribosomes

Pregunta 24

Pregunta
How did oxygen first appear in the atmosphere?
Respuesta
  • Respiration of the first living cells
  • Natural combustion
  • Ultra-violet radiation acting on water vapour

Pregunta 25

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Why was atmospheric oxygen damaging?
Respuesta
  • It created hydrogen peroxide that could attack RNA and DNA
  • Oxygen over-exposure caused severe abnormalities in cells
  • There was not enough of it

Pregunta 26

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Which enzyme protects against the effects of hydrogen peroxide?
Respuesta
  • Peroxase
  • Hydrogenase
  • Catalase

Pregunta 27

Pregunta
Which process produced atmospheric oxygen?
Respuesta
  • Photolysis
  • Respiration
  • Radical Substitution

Pregunta 28

Pregunta
What happened to the remaining organic chemicals of the 'Primordial Soup'?
Respuesta
  • They were broken down into hydrogen peroxide and reduced sediments
  • They were broken down into carbon dioxide and oxidised sediments
  • They were broken down into carbon monoxide and reduced sediments

Pregunta 29

Pregunta
Which processes do eukaryotes and prokaryotes have in common?
Respuesta
  • Glycolysis and respiration
  • Photolysis and protein synthesis
  • Glycolysis and photosynthesis

Pregunta 30

Pregunta
What does the Symbiotic Theory suggest?
Respuesta
  • All organelles work with one another, supporting the function of each other
  • All organelles used to be individual prokaryotes
  • All organelles can perform glycolysis

Pregunta 31

Pregunta
Which of the following are proof of the Symbiotic Theory?
Respuesta
  • Cells can respire
  • Mitochondria resemble aerobic bacteria
  • DNA resembles RNA

Pregunta 32

Pregunta
How can we estimate the age of rocks?
Respuesta
  • Measure their depth below the surface
  • Use TEM microscopy
  • Measure how much energy they release when combusted

Pregunta 33

Pregunta
In newer methods of determining the age of rocks, which element can be used?
Respuesta
  • Francium
  • Uranium
  • Argon

Pregunta 34

Pregunta
How old is the oldest found invertebrate (with hard shells or exoskeletons)?
Respuesta
  • 60 million years old
  • 600 million years old
  • 6000 million years old

Pregunta 35

Pregunta
How old are the first vertebrae fossils?
Respuesta
  • 5 million years old
  • 50 million years old
  • 500 million years old

Pregunta 36

Pregunta
How old are the oldest microfossils that resemble bacteria?
Respuesta
  • 1100 million years old
  • 3100 million years old
  • 5100 million years old
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