Ngfbtgry Flashcards
Miller-Urey experiment
Check if lightning could have started life
Methane, ammonia, hydrogen, and water believed to be in atmosphere
Put them in with electric current and it created organic compounds
First organic compounds
Single celled
Lightning struck gases and that started life
Role of meteors in earth formation
They struck earth and might have contained water for the seas
Origin of heredity/ first organic compound
RNA
First cells
Prokaryotes
Heterotrophic
Lipid membrane enclosed RNA
Cyanobacteria
No idea what that is
First eukaryotes
Endosymbiotic theory
One bacterium engulfs another and it lives inside of it
Both benefit and have Endosymbiotic relationship
Internal bacteria get passed down
Become internal organisms like mitochondria
Early conditions on earth
Toxic
Volcanoes, molten
No atmosphere or water
Very hot and a bunch of gases
Taxonomy
Science of classifying organisms
Linnaeus
“Father of taxonomy”
Started Linnaeus classification system
Aristotle
Idk
Linnaeus classification system
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species
Scientific name
Binomial nomenclature
Genus species
Common names
Common names for organisms
Language for classification
Idk