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Brief history of life on Earth Flashcards

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What are the three domains in life?

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  • Eukaryotic
  • Bacteria
  • Archaea
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Eukaryotic kingdoms are

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  • Protists - Eukaryotes, primarily unicellular organisms such as algae. They are heterotrophic or photosynthetic
  • Fungi - Eukaryotic, mostly multi-cellular, hetrophic with a chitin cell wall
  • Animalae - Eukaryotic, multi-cellular, motile, heterotropic
  • Plants - Eukaryotic, multi-cellular, photosynthetic
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Archaebacteria

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Prokaryotes that lack a peptide-glycan cell wall, extreme halophiles, thermophiles and methanogens

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Eubacteria

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Prokaryotes with a pepidoglycan cell wall. Examples include cyanbacteria

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How old is the Earth?

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4.5 billion yrs old

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3.8 billion years ago

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Earliest isotopic life evidence

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3.5 billion years ago

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Earliest fossil found

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2 billion years ago

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Atmosphere became oxygenated

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0.6 billion years ago

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Hard shelled organims developed

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What are stromatlites?

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  • Pre-cambrian bacteria cities which produced oxygen
  • Helped to oxygenise the atmosphere
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When did cyanobacteria develop?

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3.5 billion years ago

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A theory of how eukaryotics first formed?

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  1. Infloding of plasma membrane
  2. Engulfing of aeorbic heterotrophic prokaryotes and photosyemic prokaryotes
  3. Leading to a endosymbiobiotic relationship
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How did multi-celled ekaryotes arise?

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Evolved from single-celled Eukaryotes living in close association to each other

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When did sex gametes and complex DNA evolve and what did it lead to?

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  • 570 million years ago
  • Led to a explosion in life and diversity
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When was land colonised?

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500 million years ago

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Impact of extinction events

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  • Mass extinctions may create ecological space
  • Removes organisms occupying niches
  • Survivors descendants could move into that space
  • May led to adaptive radiation

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