Miller-Type Experiments Have Shown That

question 64

Multiple Choice

Miller-type experiments have shown that

• A)simple cells could be produced in the laboratory using a "soup" of small organic molecules.
• B)complex organic molecules can be produced by physical processes from inorganic components.
• C)living cells could survive in primitive Earth's atmosphere.
• D)given the conditions of early Earth, the formation of life would still require additional materials from meteorites and asteroids.

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Definitions:

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the process whereby a learned response is reduced or eliminated, often as a result of repeated absence of the expected reinforcement.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus, elicits a conditioned response.

Classically Conditioned

Pertains to a learning process in psychology where an association is made between a naturally occurring stimulus and a previously neutral stimulus.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.