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The Origin and Early History of Life: Where Did It All Start?

Explore the fundamental properties of life, cellular organization, sensitivity, growth, development, and reproduction. Discover different theories on the origin of life, including special creation, extraterrestrial origin, and spontaneous origin. Learn about early Earth's composition, the possible locations for the formation of life, and the debate on whether RNA or proteins came first. Explore Oparin's Bubble Hypothesis and the evolution of prokaryotes, eukaryotes, and the six kingdoms of life. Understand the unique characteristics of viruses and their classification.

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The Origin and Early History of Life: Where Did It All Start?

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  1. Chapter 4 THE ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY OF LIFE

  2. FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES OF LIFE • CELLULAR ORGANIZATION • SENSITIVITY • GROWTH • DEVELOPMENT • REPORDUCTION • REGULATION • HOMEOSTASIS • HEREDITY • Is this the same list as in chapter 1?

  3. Where did it all start? • Special Creation • Extraterrestrial Origin- Panspermia • Spontaneous Origin • The Scientific Viewpoint

  4. 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

  5. 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?

  6. ET PHONE HOME??? • Scientists are beginning to think life does exist in outer space. • Mars Rock Evidence • Other Planets

  7. Stanley Miller and Harold Urey

  8. 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

  9. Oparin’s Bubble Hypothesis • Says that in order for cells to develop they must have had some type of “protection” • Protobionts • Figure 4.8

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Evolution of the Eukaryote

  13. Advantages of being Eukaryotes? • Sexual Reproduction • Multicellularity

  14. 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

  15. Three Domains of Life

  16. Features of the Domains of LIfe

  17. 6 Kingdoms

  18. Evolution of the 6 Kingdoms

  19. Characteristics of the 6 Kingdoms Part 1

  20. Characteristics of the 6 Kingdoms Part 2

  21. 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

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