Module 4 - INTRODUCTION TO LIFE SCIENCE Flashcards
3 Ideas to explain the existence of the Universe?
- Divine creation
- Panspermia
- Spontaneous Generation
Divine creation
In this belief, everything was created by God. Life exist because of Divine intervention.
This theory explains that life came from other planet and carried by asteroids or meteorites to invade Earth. Is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by space dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets, planetoids, and also by spacecraft carrying unintended contamination by microorganisms.
Panspermia
The most common theory that Scientists used to explain that life started billions of years ago when Earth started to cool down.
Spontaneous Generation
Panspermia came from the greek word?
Pan - All
Sperma - Seed
Three popular variations of the panspermia hypothesis are:
Lithopanspermia (interstellar panspermia)
Ballistic panspermia (interplanetary panspermia)
Directed panspermia
impact-expelled rocks from a planet’s surface serve as transfer vehicles for spreading biological material from one solar system to another.
Lithopanspermia
impact-expelled rocks from a planet’s surface serve as transfer vehicles for spreading biological material from one planet to another within the same solar system
Ballistic panspermia
the intentional spreading of the seeds of life to other planets by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization, or the intentional spreading of the seeds of life from Earth to other planets by humans
Directed panspermia
Who suggested that spores could be driven in the expansion of space by the pressure and solar radiation
1903, Svante Arrhenius
Who suggested that life on Earth came as an aggressive infection?
1957, Alexander Oparin
Earth was a byproduct of cosmic garbage by more advanced civilization
1960
Who suggested direct Panspermia?
1970, Francis Crick
Who suggested that viruses might rained down to planetary space
1980, Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe
First phase of Earth?
Earth’s formation
- 4 Billion years ago
Second phase of Earth?
Hadean Eon
4.5-4 billion years ago
Ingredients of life that came from outerspace is called?
Soft Panspermia
Flew a special sample collecting gel, where they find special Amino Acid and organic compound essential to life
2004, Stardust Mission
How many years old the Universe is?
13.8 Billion years old
For a living being survive one celestial body to another they need to survive what stages?
Escape
- Escape their host planet; survive different calamities
Transit
- Survive travel in space; radiation, cold and dry situation
Delivery
- Landing
_____ or _____ is the oldest theory that explains the beginning of life. _____ shows that life appears from non living things. It also proposes that the first life-forms generated were very simple and through a gradual process became increasingly complex.
Abiogenesis or Spontaneous generation theory
Who said “To question that beetles and wasps were generated in cow dung is to question reason, sense, and experience.”
Sir William David Ross (1877-1971)
Who explained through his experiment that life did not came from non-living things but from living things.
(May flies sa open container meat at wala sa may lid)
1668, Francesco Redi
Redi’s experiment was supported by _____
Abbe Lazarro Spallanzani
What happened in the experiment of Abbe Lazarro Spallanzani?
Both containers are boiled but one of it was not sealed allowing the air to enter inside the flask. Days passed, the open flask contains many microorganisms while the sealed container remains clean.
Urey-Miller Experiment was conducted by?
Stanley L. Miller (Student)
Harold C. Urey (Professor)
1952
experiment was based on the proposed type of atmosphere and major elements present in early Earth.
What experiment provided proof that amino acids and other simple organic matter can be formed with the right ingredients.
Urey-Miller Experiment
Urey-Miller hypothesis
Proposed that amino acid can be synthesized outside living system
gas mixture containing hydrogen, ammonia, methane, and water vapor subjected to electric spark
Proposed that amino acid can be synthesized outside living system
Urey-Miller hypothesis
______ suggests that life arose gradually from inorganic molecules, with “building blocks” like amino acids forming first and then combining to make complex polymers.
Oparin-Haldane hypothesis
Who created Oparin-Haldane hypothesis
John Haldane and Aleksandr Oparin