College Reading Exam-“How Did Life Begin?”
Directions:
Please write complete sentences for your answers to the following questions. Do not copy.
Paraphrase using your own words. You can use a separate sheet of paper to answer.
1. According to Andrew Knoll, what are the requirements for something that evolves in
“Darwinian fashion”? (See “What is your definition of life”)
2. What is the relationship between rocks and life? (See “So life is really chemistry”)
3. What did Stanley Miller produce in the laboratory that hinted at how life started? (See
“What is the recipe for life”)
4. What does “full-fledged” mean in the following sentence?—“Is it hard to go from these
little building blocks to a full-fledged organism?”
5. What is meant by the sentence “One way to put it is that animals might be evolution’s
icing, but bacteria are really the cake?
6.
College Reading Exam-“How Did Life Begin?”
Directions:
Please write complete sentences for your answers to the following questions. Do not copy.
Paraphrase using your own words. You can use a separate sheet of paper to answer.
1. According to Andrew Knoll, what are the requirements for something that evolves in
“Darwinian fashion”? (See “What is your definition of life”)
2. What is the relationship between rocks and life? (See “So life is really chemistry”)
3. What did Stanley Miller produce in the laboratory that hinted at how life started? (See
“What is the recipe for life”)
4. What does “full-fledged” mean in the following sentence?—“Is it hard to go from these
little building blocks to a full-fledged organism?”
5. What is meant by the sentence “One way to put it is that animals might be evolution’s
icing, but bacteria are really the cake?