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Introducing Evolution. Objectives: SOL BIO.8a-d. TSW investigate and understand how populations change through time, including: Examining fossil records. Fossils. Any evidence of an organism that lived long ago. Types of Fossils. Cast Mold Trace fossils Imprints Petrified fossils
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Objectives: SOL BIO.8a-d • TSW investigate and understand how populations change through time, including: • Examining fossil records
Fossils • Any evidence of an organism that lived long ago.
Types of Fossils • Cast • Mold • Trace fossils • Imprints • Petrified fossils • Frozen or Amber
Dating Fossils • Relative Dating • Rock layers are put down in order • Oldest on bottom, youngest layers on top • Radiometric Dating • Carbon-14 (50,000 years or less) • Potassium-40 (1.3 billion years – 50,000 years)
Why Use Fossils? • Scientists have used the fossil record to construct a history of life on Earth. • Earth’s life forms appeared 3.5 billion years ago • Fossil record is not complete, but pretty good for general information
The Origin of Life on Earth • Abiogenesis – life from non-living things • Disproven by Redi and Pasteur • Primordial Soup – natural processes formed early organic compounds • Miller-Urey experiment • Bubble Theory – formed protocells • Stanley Fox
The Origin of Cells • Prokaryotes – Archaebacteria (1st cells) • Eukaryotes – endosymbiont hypothesis • Separate DNA in chloroplasts and mitochondria • Both organelles the same size and shape of bacteria