Miller's experiment showed that life could arise via chemical evolution.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)


False

Miller's experiment showed that inorganic chemicals may form organic molecules in the presence of a strong energy source, even if oxygen is not present.

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Compare sharks and bony fishes in regard to how they ingest their food. In your answer, discuss how both the position of the mouth and the presence of a gill cover confers a feeding advantage to bony fish

What will be an ideal response?

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While out on a trip to a remote location in South America, you discovered an organism on a beautiful tropical flower. You have no idea about the classification of this organism

What features or characteristics of the new organism should you look for to at least be able to determine the kingdom it belongs to?

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Which of the following is NOT a reasonable fear of genetically modified foods?

a) Organisms that we want to kill may become invincible. b) Eating genetically modified foods could be dangerous. c) The loss of genetic diversity among crop plants is risky. d) Organisms that we don't want to kill, like the monarch butterfly, may be killed inadvertently. e) All of the above are reasonable fears of genetically modified foods.

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A certain type of congenital deafness in humans is caused by a rare autosomal dominant gene. In a mating involving a deaf man and a deaf woman, could all the children have normal hearing?

A) No, because it is dominant. Children always get the dominant alleles. B) Yes, because traits assort independently. C) No, because children favor their parents. D) Yes, because it must be recessive if it's rare. E) Yes, assuming that the parents are heterozygotes (because the gene is rare), it is possible that all of the children could have normal hearing.

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