Practice Quiz: AP Biology Chapter 19
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How and when could the earth have formed?
Describe the formation and components of the earth’s early atmosphere?
Describe the possible origins and formation of monomers. What
experiment supported Oparin’s hypothesis?
Describe the possible formation of polymers:
a. Protein-first Hypothesis: scientist, experiment, proteinoids, and
microspheres, DNA genes arose…
b. Clay-first Hypothesis: catalyst, attracts, energy, polypeptides and
RNA arose….
c. RNA-first Hypothesis:
Describe the possible formation of the first cell (protocell):
a. Fox:
b. Oparin:
Which could have come first? heterotroph? autotroph? and what possible
energy reaction provided ATP?
What is the information highway?
Give the arguments involving self-replication and…
a. RNA being the first (before proteins):
b. DNA being the first (before proteins):
c. Polypeptides and RNA evolving simultaneously (Cairns-Smith):
What makes a “true” cell?
What is a fossil?
How is stratified rock formed and how does it contribute to dating
fossils?
Describe radioactive dating.
For the Precambrian Era:
a. time span
b. first cells? first phototroph?
c. stromolites
d. eucaryotic cells and the Endosymbiotic hypothesis?
e. multicellularity?
For the Paleozoic Era:
a. time span
b. Cambrian organisms (first period)
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c. Idea of the Molecular clock:
d. Algae 
e. Invertebrates 
f. Insect wings….
g. Devonian Period was the Age of?
h. Carboniferous Period: formation of? Age of…
For the Mesozoic Era:
a. time span
b. gymnosperms 
c. Age of? (plant)
d. Therapsids…
e. Jurassic Period:
f. Cretaceous Period (last period):
For the Cenozoic Era:
a. time span
b. By 55 million years ago, all modern orders of….
c. Where did primates evolve to live?
d. Describe the first primates.
e. What is the human line called? Hominids (gave you the answer )
Describe continental drift and describe what can be inferred from
understanding its processes.
What are some possible causes of mass extinctions?