Origin of LIfe

Question 1

first cooked up primoridial soup

Answer 1

1952 - Stanley Miller

Question 2

• the notion that when Earth was young, the oceans were filled with simple chemicals important for life
• these would eventually self-assemble into simple living cells

Answer 2

primordial soup

Question 3

said that life may have formed from chemicals in some warm little pond

Answer 3

Charles Darwin

Question 4

When was the Earth formed

Answer 4

4.5 billion years ago

Question 5

Eon when the Earth first formed

Answer 5

Hadean Eon

Question 6

When did things settle down after the formation of Earth

Answer 6

4 billion years ago

Question 7

Dawn when the things in Earth settled down

Answer 7

Archean Eon

Question 8

earliest possible time life could have started

Answer 8

Archean Eon

Question 9

non life became life

Answer 9

abiogenesis

Question 10

said that life is a struggle agains entropy - the persistent resistance of decay, the preservation of DISequilibrium

Answer 10

Erwin Schrodinger

Question 11

simply a measure of disorder and affects all aspects of our daily lives

Answer 11

Entropy

Question 12

evolution through natural selection

Answer 12

Charles Darwin

Question 13

Rules for Life

Answer 13

living things:
1. must work to avoid decay and disorder
2. have to create a closed system
3. must have some molecule that carry information

4. information must evolve by natural selection

Question 14

central dogma of biology

Answer 14

DNA-RNA-Protein

Question 15

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) with such a sequence and folding structure that it can act as an enzyme

Answer 15

Ribozyme

Question 16

The idea that life can be distributed throughout the universe, from planet to planet

Answer 16

Panspermia

Question 17

LUCA

Answer 17

Last Universal Common Ancestor

Question 18

any of numerous small celestial bodies that may have existed at an early stage of the development of the solar system.

Answer 18

plantesimal

Question 19

where primitive life was about to emerge from

Answer 19

geyser cave

Question 20

emitted large amounts of radiation, creating a diverse range of materials, and eventually producing the early building blocks of ilfe

Answer 20

uranium ore

Question 21

temperature of geyser water

Answer 21

below 100°C

Question 22

one of the most crucial factors in producing the building blocks of life

Answer 22

wet and dry cycles

Question 23

what progressed under the wet and dry cycles

Answer 23

polymerization

Question 24

molecules were enclosed within lipid membranes

Answer 24

proto-cellular life

Question 25

primoridal soup components

Answer 25

• water
• hydrogen
• methane
• ammonia
• carbon dioxide