Lab Quiz One

Question 1

Formation of the Earth

Answer 1

4.6 bya
Precambrian

Question 2

First evidence of life
first prokaryotic cells

Answer 2

3.8 bya

Question 3

First eukaryotic

Answer 3

1.8 bya

Question 4

Cambrian Explosion

Answer 4

540 mya
Paleozoic Era

Question 5

First dinosaurs

Answer 5

240 mya
Mesozoic Era

Question 6

Extinction of dinosaurs

Answer 6

65 mya
Cenozoic Era

Question 7

Evolution of Homo Sapiens

Answer 7

200,000 ya

Question 8

First Jawed Fish

Answer 8

440 mya

Question 9

When did Charles Darwin set off
On what?

Answer 9

1831
Beagle

Question 10

Zoologist, Director of natural history museum

Answer 10

Richard Owen, identified specimens for Darwin
later came to dislike him and refute the theory of evolution
Deeply religious

Question 11

Other theorist of natural selection

Answer 11

Alfred Russel Wallace
Not as much evidence as Darwin

Question 12

Important fossil

Answer 12

Archaeopteryx
feathers on wings
owen called it a bird
no beak, jaws
link between reptiles and birds
claws on the front of wings

Question 13

Constructed DNA model

Answer 13

1953
Francis Crick
James Watson