According to most theories about the evolution of early life on earth, the atmosphere had an abundance of ammonia, methane, and carbon dioxide, shown above. free energy from lightning could have allowed chemical reactions to occur that generated the precursors to life on earth. which inorganic molecule(s) are accurately paired with their role in the formation of organic molecules necessary to life?
a) ammonia would have provided the nitrogen found in the amine groups of amino acid and the nitrogenous bases in dna.
b) methane would have provided the hydrogen to form water, a universal solvent for chemical reactions supporting life.
c) ammonia would have provided the electrons to generate atp using an electron transport chain within the mitochondria.
d) carbon dioxide would have provided the oxygen needed to perform photosynthesis, resulting in the production of glucose.

Chapter 11.1 & 11.2 notes section 11.1 1. every living thing has a set of ? inherited from its parents. 2. after becoming a ? , mendel spent several years studying ? and mathematics at the university of vienna. 3. during sexual reproduction, male and female reproductive cells join, a process known as ? . 4. pea flowers are normally ? , which means that sperm cells in pollen fertilize the egg cells in the ? flowers. 5. when mendel crossed plants with ? characters for the same trait, the resulting offspring had only one of the characters. 6. a ? is a specific characteristic, such as seed color or plant height, that varies from one individual to another. 7. filius and filia are the latin words for ? and ? . 8. the offspring of crosses between parents with different traits are called ? . 9.to mendel's surprise, all of the offspring had the character of only ? of the parents. 10. mendel's first conclusion was that biological inheritance is determined by ? that are ? from one generation to the next. 11. scientist calls the chemical factors that determine traits ? . 12. mendel's second conclusion is the ? . 13. the principle of dominance states that some alleles are ? and others are ? . 14. when mendel allowed the f1 plants to reproduce by self-pollination the traits controlled by ? alleles reappeared in about ? of the f2 plants in each cross.