Origins of life

Question 1

Moon of saturn with liquid water under an ice-coat?

Answer 1

Enceladus

Question 2

Stan Miller did what?

Answer 2

Showed how amino acids could be produced on early earth

Question 3

What is the feature of exobiologists search for potential for life?

Answer 3

liquid water

Question 4

What do hypercycles do?

Answer 4

Allow for the maintenance of more information in a system than maintained by any single component

Question 5

Who proposed hypercycles?

Answer 5

Eigen and Schuster

Question 6

What is earth’s carbon formed by?

Answer 6

Population II stars

Question 7

What did Oparin do?

Answer 7

suggested that new life cannot arise because living organisms would immediately eat them

Question 8

The RNA world model was proposed by who?

Answer 8

Cech

Question 9

The rna world model proposed what?

Answer 9

the earliest life forms were mostly RNA

Question 10

What solar system object is the most likely to support life?

Answer 10

Europa

Question 11

What is the largest mass extinction?

Answer 11

The Permian

Question 12

What is a gamma ray burster that could kill all life on earth?

Answer 12

WR 104