The Origin of Life on Earth
This activity will help you meet these educational goals:

You will apply scientific reasoning to determine if available data and evidence support a given claim.
You will reason abstractly and quantitatively.
You will make sense of problems and work to solve them.
Directions
Read the instructions for this self-checked activity. Type in your response to each question, and check your answers. At the end of the activity, write a brief evaluation of your work.

Activity
Different types of organisms evolved at different times in Earth’s history. This chart shows when organisms evolved relative to one another:

the evolution of protists to advanced living organisms

Watch this video about the origin of plants in the sea, and then answer the following questions based on the image and the video.

Part A
How do the evolutionary chart and the video support the claim that all living things are made up of cells?