Chap 14 Homework Sec 14.2 p.412, #17-19; p.413, #29-31; STP
p.415, #12
17. Spontaneous generation 18. Endosymbiont theory 19. A. biogenesis theory
29. Redi showed that multicellular organisms such as maggots don’t arise spontaneously. Pasteur showed that microorganisms do not arise spontaneously, either. Both helped support the theory of biogenesis. 30. hot, sulfuric; some archaea 31. the oxygen formed an ozone layer, which shielded Earth from much of Sun’s radiation and paved the way for eukaryote evolution.
12. Oxygen reacts with some
minerals to form oxides. The early rocks found on Earth do not contain oxides, so scientists infer that there was little or no oxygen in the atmosphere.