The Origin and Early History of Life: Where Did It All Start?
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Chapter 4 THE ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY OF LIFE
FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES OF LIFE • CELLULAR ORGANIZATION • SENSITIVITY • GROWTH • DEVELOPMENT • REPORDUCTION • REGULATION • HOMEOSTASIS • HEREDITY • Is this the same list as in chapter 1?
Where did it all start? • Special Creation • Extraterrestrial Origin- Panspermia • Spontaneous Origin • The Scientific Viewpoint
What Was Early Earth Like? • Very Hottttttttttt • Composition of Earth Debatable • Many think that it was a reducing atmosphere- with CO2, N2, H20 and H2
Where Did Life Form? • It is believed that the first precurses to life formed between 3.8 and 2.5 billion years ago….but where? • Oceans edge? Under frozen oceans? Deep in earths crust? Within clay? In deep sea vents?
ET PHONE HOME??? • Scientists are beginning to think life does exist in outer space. • Mars Rock Evidence • Other Planets
What came first RNA or Proteins? • Huge Debate • RNA people say that without a hereditary molecule other molecules could not be formed • Protein group says that without enzymes nothing could replicate at all. • Peptide-Nucleic Acid people say that there must have been a pre-RNA world where the protein-nucleic acid was the basis for life
Oparin’s Bubble Hypothesis • Says that in order for cells to develop they must have had some type of “protection” • Protobionts • Figure 4.8
The Earliest Cells • Microfossils- suggest that first cells prokaryotes, earliest eukaryotes about 1.5 billion years ago. • Archeabacteria- live in very harsh environments lack peptidoglycan • Methanogens, thermophiles, halophiles • Bacteria- have very strong cell walls- cyanobacteria very important
Eukaryotes • Indirect evidence suggests that they might go back 2.7 billion years…but no direct fossil evidence for this. • So how did Eukaryotes come to be???? • Origin of the Nucleus and ER • Origin of Mitochondria and Chloroplasts • Endosymbiosis theory supported by the fact that both Mitochondrion and Chloroplasts have their own DNA similar to that of free living bacteria
Advantages of being Eukaryotes? • Sexual Reproduction • Multicellularity
Classification of Organisms • Linnaeus- came up with the binomial way of naming organisms • Homo sapiens • Homo= genus , is capitalized and italicized • Sapiens= Species, lower case and italicized
What about Viruses? • They are a special case • They can not survive on their own so they are not considered “Living” • They are parasitic Chemicals