Life emerged in the oceans between 3.5 and 4 billion years ago as early single-celled prokaryotes. DNA is essential to all life as it contains the genetic instructions needed for organisms to reproduce. While the exact origins of life are still unclear, scientific research provides clues about the conditions required, including a diversity of chemical elements, energy sources, and water. As prokaryotes evolved, some began producing oxygen through photosynthesis, transforming the atmosphere and allowing for more complex eukaryotic life to develop over billions of years, including sexual reproduction that enhanced genetic diversity and evolution.
Life emerged in the oceans between 3.5 and 4 billion years ago as early single-celled prokaryotes. DNA is essential to all life as it contains the genetic instructions needed for organisms to reproduce. While the exact origins of life are still unclear, scientific research provides clues about the conditions required, including a diversity of chemical elements, energy sources, and water. As prokaryotes evolved, some began producing oxygen through photosynthesis, transforming the atmosphere and allowing for more complex eukaryotic life to develop over billions of years, including sexual reproduction that enhanced genetic diversity and evolution.
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Life emerged in the oceans between 3.5 and 4 billion years ago as early single-celled prokaryotes. DNA is essential to all life as it contains the genetic instructions needed for organisms to reproduce. While the exact origins of life are still unclear, scientific research provides clues about the conditions required, including a diversity of chemical elements, energy sources, and water. As prokaryotes evolved, some began producing oxygen through photosynthesis, transforming the atmosphere and allowing for more complex eukaryotic life to develop over billions of years, including sexual reproduction that enhanced genetic diversity and evolution.
Life emerged in the oceans between 3.5 and 4 billion years ago as early single-celled prokaryotes. DNA is essential to all life as it contains the genetic instructions needed for organisms to reproduce. While the exact origins of life are still unclear, scientific research provides clues about the conditions required, including a diversity of chemical elements, energy sources, and water. As prokaryotes evolved, some began producing oxygen through photosynthesis, transforming the atmosphere and allowing for more complex eukaryotic life to develop over billions of years, including sexual reproduction that enhanced genetic diversity and evolution.
PRESENTED BY: Agustin, Khaizcer Gegante, Romar Jaro, Matthew Davenn Nabor, Alex Joseph Pusung, Rijay Ramirez, Vincent TOPICS Topic: The Origin of Life
Topic: How Did Life Begin
and Change
Topic: Life in All Its Forms
DNA DNA DNA is one of the most important characteristics of all living things. DNA is something that all living things share. It is an essential quality of life that is necessary for organisms to reproduce. It is how we know that all organisms came from a common ancestor. It is the “engine of evolution” because mutations in our DNA allow organisms to mutate and eventually evolve. No one knows for certain how DNA came to be, but most scientists believe that it evolved from a simpler RNA strand. Origin Life The Origin of Life The Of There is no set definition but the most common characteristics include the organism’s ability to adapt, metabolize, and reproduce.
Prokaryotes or single-celled organisms, which would evolve into eukaryotes and
bacteria.
Eukaryotes are usually bigger, more mobile, have more DNA contained in a nucleus, and have organelles or primitive organs.
Oxygen is highly reactive and combustible. Too much oxygen and life on Earth becomes dangerous; too little and we wouldn’t be here. How Did Life Begin and Changes How Did Life Begin and Change? Scientists have many questions about how life first appeared, but they have developed much evidence that billions of years passed between the appearance of the first single-celled organisms and the appearance of complex multicelled organisms like humans. As we continue this lesson, we will look further into the changes in living things that ended with the appearance of humans
A diversity of chemical elements, energy – but not too much and not too little –and water, which provides a better medium for chemical reactions than solids or gases.
Rocky planets have a diversity of chemical elements, access to energy, and sources of water. They meet all the Goldilocks Conditions for the appearance of life.
Deep sea vents represent cracks in the Earth’s crust. A diversity of chemical elements can pass from the Earth’s core into the oceans at these points, as can lots of energy. All of the Goldilocks Conditions can be met in these small patches on the ocean’s floor. Life in All Its Forms Life in All Its Forms Our ideas about the number of species on the Earth have changed pretty dramatically over time. Three hundred years ago, Carl Linnaeus estimated that there were 4,000 species. Today, some scientists estimate there are as many as 8.7 million species, and this doesn’t even include bacteria!
Carl Linnaeus tried to count and organize the number of living species on Earth, and he came up with the number 4,000. In 1900, scientists estimated that half a million species existed. Today, many scientists believe that number is close to 8.7 million.
This is a hands-on activity. Scientists cordon off a small area, cover it with nets, and begin counting. They generally expect to find thousands of species in a few square yards of area Life emerged in the oceans between 3.5 and 4 billion years ago.
Scientific research Details about the gives a general idea origin of life are still of what needed to happen to bring unclear. about life. Life is a regime that actively extracts matter and energy from the environment for its own maintenance and reproduction.
Life adapts to the
Life can reproduce and environment and has a has a hereditary program metabolism that for defining and directing processes energy. molecular mechanisms. Life and non-life follow the same chemical laws, implying that life can emerge from non-life.
Wöhler's experiment in The belief in spontaneous
1828 demonstrated generation of life from non- that life and non-life life was disproved by scientists in the seventeenth follow the same century and later by Louis chemical laws. Pasteur. Prokaryotes were tiny single-cell organisms and the ancestors of modern bacteria.
Prokaryotes evolved from Prokaryotes, despite their
inanimate chemical small size, were complex processes and lived in the compared to the inanimate seas, consuming chemicals universe and formed in their environment. intricate chemical networks. The Oxygen Holocaust wiped out many single- celled organisms and caused a bottleneck in evolution.
3.8 billion years ago, Photosynthesizing
the atmosphere had prokaryotes pumped oxygen negligible levels of free into the atmosphere, leading to a 3% oxygen content oxygen. around 2.5 billion years ago. Sexual reproduction in eukaryotes enhanced evolution and is one of the most revolutionary advances in the history of life on Earth.
Eukaryotes invented sex Sexual reproduction provides
about 1.5 billion years ago, a wider range of genetic possibly through diversity, allowing evolution cannibalism and accidental to pick and choose from two DNA exchange. sets of genes. DNA and RNA are essential molecules in all living organisms on Earth and Copying errors in DNA replication drive evolution and the origin of new species. DNA contains the Occasional errors in DNA instructions for replication result in slight constructing a living cell mutations, which can have and RNA helps in executing varying effects on those instructions. organisms. THANK YOU!
