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Question 1

What was Oparin’s primordial soup?

Answer 1

Primordial soup was a warm pound with non-living chemicals

Question 2

How did earths oceans form?

Answer 2

The Earth cooled enough so that water vapor in the atmosphere would condense and fall back to the surface as rain

Question 3

How did organisms mutate into autotrophic prokaryotes?

Answer 3

Some prokaryotes mutated into autotrophs able to produce their own food. They manufactured organic compounds by light energy (photosynthesis) or by getting energy from inorganic materials (chemosynthesis).

Question 4

How did earths atmosphere form?

Answer 4

The ancient atmosphere formed when the Earth’s molten interior released (through volcanoes) a variety of inorganic molecules but no free oxygen.

Question 5

What is a heterotroph?

Answer 5

An organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter