Bio Chp. 14

¡Supera tus tareas y exámenes ahora con Quizwiz!

Extraterrestrial Origins (Panspermia)

(life on earth was "seeded" from OUTER SPACE) Evidence of organic compounds HAS been found in recovered meteorites. The Murchison (Aus, 6/20) and Murray (KY, Glucose sugars and amino acids) meteorites are some of the best-studied examples.

The first life forms arose on earth sometime after the planet cooled about

4 billion years ago

What is an autotroph? What factors helped them thrive on Earth?

An autotroph is an organism that can produce its own food, they were able to thrive on earth because of the abundance of chemicals, which many were able to use to produce food

What present-day organisms may be similar to the earliest autotrophs? Why?

Archae bacteria, they are chemosynthetic autotrophs dwelling near sources of sulfur and methane, much lke first autotrophs they are anaerobic

20. Pasteur hypothesized that many chemical reactions occurring in the atmosphere resulted in the formation of a "primordial soup "of organic molecules.

F; Oparin

19. In the early 1900s, Alexander Oparin proposed a widely accepted hypothesis that life began on land.

F; in the sea

17. Several billion years ago, Earth's atmosphere had no free methane.

F; oxygen

15. Biogenesis explains how life began on Earth.

False; doesn't explain

Louis Pasteur 19th cent

S-shaped neck flasks

18. Primitive Earth's atmosphere may have been composed of water vapor, hydrogen, methane, and ammonia.

True

Radiometric dating

age determined by elements/isotopes in the rock, such as c-14, k-40, and u-238

22. Miller and Urey showed that organic compounds, including nucleic acids and sugars, could be formed in the laboratory, just as Oparin had been predicted.

amino acids

Spallanzani 18th cent

broth sterilized w heat and corked = no microbes broth sterliliez w heat left uncorked = mucho microbes

What tommy cech mean by calling early earth RNA World

cells first contained only RNA b/c RNA is much simpley and can carry out chem (act as enymze) reactions as well as carry genetic code

24. Sidney Fox took Miller and Urey's experiment a step further and showed how amino acids could cluster to form protocells.

f; microspheres

16. For life to begin, first, simple inorganic molecules had to be formed and then organized into complex molecules.

fasle; organic

1/2 life

how long to decay to a stable state 1/2 way

Whats the dif between a coacervate and a microshpere

micros- round blobs made of protein molecules and surrounded by membrane Coacervate - collection of droplets composed of molecules of diff. types of organics

Law of Superposition

more recent is first rock

23. This "life-in-a-test-tube" experiment of Miller and Urey provides support for some modern theory of biogenisis.

origin of life (Chemosyntheisis

Francisco Redi 17th cent

rotting meat

Chemosynthesis (origin)

the theory that chemical reactions occurred here on young earth that resulted in (1) first organic compounds forming and then (2) cells forming from these. This is by far the most popular scientific theory and probably the best-supported by testable, factual evidence.

What change occurred in Earth's atmosphere after the evolution of photosynthesizing prokaryotes? Why?

there was much more oxygen in the atmosphere because it is produced as a byproduct of their food making process, and a layer of ozone (o3) developed, along with cloud coverage

ribozyme

type of RNA molecule that can act as both genetic coding and enzyme for specific chem. reaction

Relative Dating

which organisms preceeded the others, uses relative pos. in Strata earth rocks and Law of Sup to determine age of life

Gases in miller urey chamber

Methane, ammonia, water vapor, hydrogen

25. Describe the likely characteristics of the first organisms on Earth.

Prokaryotes, single celled, anaerobic, probably heterotrophic

Oparin

Proposed Chemosynthesis, rejeted b/c sounds like spont. gen, throught many chem reactions in atmosphere = prmordial soup


Conjuntos de estudio relacionados

Osteoporosis Risk Factors and Treatment

View Set

Ch 12: Firms in Perfectly Competitive Markets

View Set

Test #1 Development: Normal Development (10)

View Set

The Geography and Early Settlement of Ancient Greece

View Set

Vinification Chap 7 (élément communs vinification), Chap 8 (Vin blancs et doux), Chap 9 (Vin rouge et rosé)

View Set

consumer behavior study questions

View Set