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The process of turning an RNA sequence into a protein is
The Miller-Urey experiment led to a remarkable conclusion: many of the organic building blocks of life were super easy to make. This caused many biologists to think that we were right on the cusp of being able to create life in the lab. However, those hopes were not realized and we are not at all close to creating or "inventing" life. Another major problem is that
The effect that is used to do a quick test to see if someone has suffered a concussion (brain injury) is called:
Lichens are estimated to cover what percentage of the Earth's land surface?
_______ is special among all the elements because it allows for the construction of a great number of complex molecules
DNA is made of 4 based abbreviated with the letters
Which of the following is closest to the meaning of Occam's Razor?
Which of these might you find living at a hot spring or geyser in Yellowstone National Park?
Which of the following is NOT one of the functions of proteins?
While big iron meteorites like the one in this photo are dramatic, the ones most important for studying the origin of life on Earth are the stony-type carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. Which of these is NOT true (FALSE) about the carbonaceous chondrites?
LUCA (the common ancestor to all life on Earth) seems to be most closely related to
Carbon-12, carbon-13, and carbon-14 are all the same element and behave the same way when making chemical bonds. Which of these three isotopes contains the most neutrons and therefore has the most mass?
Which of the following can rightly be called "the toughest animal on Earth"?
The typical rate of the drift of tectonic plates is about the same rate as
Which of the following is NOT one of the three domains of life on Earth?
Finding liquid water, not just solid water or gaseous water (ice and steam), is so important in the search for extraterrestrial life that NASA's motto for the search for life
RNA is like DNA, but the molecule T is replaced with
While other liquids could potentially be used, _______ has many properties that make it ideally suited for life (much better than any other liquid)
Suppose we wanted to find evidence of life in the oceans of Europa (a moon of Jupiter). We could build a device to measure the handedness of any amino acids we find. Which of the following would suggest evidence of life?
Vrai ou faux 1) P25 est une CKI ?2) L'association de CKI au complexe cause sa dégradation ?