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Origins of Early Life Flashcards

1
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How old is the earth?

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4.6by

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How did the earth form?

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by the gradual accumulation of 9dust and larger objects

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When are the earliest fossil evidence for life dated?

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3500MYA

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By what point was earth cool enough for life to exist?

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3800MYA

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What is the Panspermia theory?

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suggests that life on earth didn’t originate on earth, but arrived on a meteorite from another planet.

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What are the problems with the panspermia theory?

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No other planet has been found with conditions suitable for life, and the bombardment of meteorites created conditions that would have killed any early life forms

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What is the evidence that eukaryotes evolved from prokaryotes?

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prokaryotes apper earlier in the fossil record
Prokaryotes simpler in virtually every aspect
Have fundamental similarities

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What are the similarities between Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes?

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method of transmitting information is in the triplet code

Aino acids are laevorotary, nucleic acid sugars are dextrorotary

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What is LUCA?

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Latest Universal Common Ancestor, suggests all recent populations and everything on earth have one common descent.

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What are the similarities between all lineages of extant organisms?

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DNA, RNA, Pseudogenes, amino acids

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What are pseudogenes?

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genes that have lost their function, no longer code for a protein

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What is the Miller-urey experiment?

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Conditions of early earth simulated in the lab to see what chemicals it would yield and if these would be able to support early life?

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What chemicals were created in the miller Urey experiment?

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Amino acids, Purines/Pyrimidines, Sugars, Porphyrins, Tar like substances

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What were the possible energy sources on earth?

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Sun
Radioactivity
Lightning
Volcanoes

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What are the four main steps in the creation of the earliest cells?

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1 - abiotic synthesis of small organic molecules
2 - joining of small molecules into macromolecules
3 - Packing of molecules into probionts
4 - Origin of self replicating molecules

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16
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What are probionts?

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An aggregation of organic molecules, surrounded by a membrane, that abiotically coalesces into resemblances of living matter

17
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What did self replicating material make possible?

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Inheritance

18
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What was the first genetic material?

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RNA

19
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What was discovered that scientists base the origin of early life on?

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Self splicing RNA, capable of catalysing their own excision from parent molecules

20
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What is the primordial soup theory?

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life began in an ocean as a result of a combination of chemicals from the atmosphere and some form of energy to make amino acids etc.

21
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What are chemoheterotrophs?

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Carbon source and energy both come from organic compounds

22
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What are chemoautotrophs?

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Carbon source from Co2, energy from inorganic chemicals

23
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What are photoheterotrophs?

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Carbon source from organic material, energy from light

24
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What are photoautotrophs?

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Carbon source from CO2, energy from light

25
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What are Obligate Aerobes?

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requires oxygen

26
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What are Obligate anaerobes?

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only anaerobic respiration

27
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What are facultative anaerobes?

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both aerobic and anaerobic respiration

28
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What are the three types of evidence for presence of prokaryotic life?

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Fossil Stromatolites, Fossil microorganisms, Carbonaceous matter

29
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What are stromatolites?

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layered rocks that form when certain prokaryotes bind thin films of sediment together, form in hyper saline conditions

30
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Where is evidence of fossilised microorganisms found?

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silicified in cherts, and acritarchs

31
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How can carbonaceous matter be chemically tested for evidence of early life?

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Rubisso has preferential carbon isotope uptake -C12 is better, so signals seen in isotopic ratios in carbonaceous remains

32
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What do cyanobacteria produce as a byproduct of metabolism?

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Oxygen

33
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How is most atmospheric 02 produced?

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Photosynthesis step of splitting water

34
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What happened when photosynthesis first evolved?

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free oxygen dissolved into surrounding water, very reactive

35
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What are the early oxygen sinks?

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Volcanic gases, dissolved iron in the ocean, microorganisms carrying out respiration aerobically

36
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What are BIFs?

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banded iron formations, formed when oxygen dissolved into the ocean and reacted with iron to precipitate out as an oxide. , O2 could only gas out once all iron was reacted and sea is saturated with oxygen

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