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Origin of Life on Earth:
The Biological Processes
Geology 230,
Fossils and Evolution
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What is Life?
• Internal chemical activity providing
growth, repair, and generation of
energy.
• The ability to reproduce.
• The capacity to respond to outside
stimuli.
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Components of Life
5 Principal components for all life:
Water
Carbohydrates: starches and sugars for
energy
Fats: for energy storage
Proteins: structural tissues
Nucleic acids: for reproduction
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6 Dominant Elements of Life
H, hydrogen
O, oxygen
C, carbon
N, nitrogen
P, phosphorous (in rocks)
S, sulfur
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Combining Elements into
complex Organic compounds
• Miller’s 1953 experiment:
Combine gases of the early atmosphere
in a sealed system with no oxygen.
Heat the gases, add electrical sparks, cool
the mixture.
Amino acids formed after several days.
They are the building blocks of protein.
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Combining Elements into
complex Organic compounds
• Miller combined CO2, NH3 (ammonia),
CH4 (methane), and H2
• Added electrical spark, plus cooling
• Formed amino acids, e.g. Serine
C3H7NO3
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Miller’s apparatus for creating amino acids from
simple compounds in an anoxic atmosphere.
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Miller’s experimental apparatus
-- note the black organics in the
spark chamber
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Combining Elements into
complex Organic compounds
Several variations of Miller’s experiment
have been run. These experiments
have produced carbohydrates, fats,
simple proteins, and the building
blocks of nucleic acids: sugars,
phosphates, and nitrogenous bases
(ATCG).
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How did life begin?
No one has yet been able to create life in
the lab. However, scientists have had
only 50 years. Nature had 100s of
millions of years.
Primordial Soup with Julia Child
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Experimental evidence: polymer
synthesis
proteinoids lipid spheres
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What was earliest life like?
• Certainly it was single celled.
• Single celled life today, 3 branches:
Archaea or Archaebacteria -prokaryotic cells
Bacteria or Eubacteria - prokaryotic cells
Eukarya - eukaryotic cells
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The 3 Primary
Branches of Life
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Houston, we have a problem…
• In modern cells:
DNA directs protein
synthesis
AND
proteins catalyze DNA
replication
Which came first?
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Prokaryotes vs. Eukaryotes
• Prokaryotes - simple, single-celled
organisms lacking a nucleus, organelles,
and sexual reproduction. Many are
anaerobic.
• Eukaryotes – single-celled (protists) or
multi-celled (plants and animals), have a
nucleus, organelles, sex, and are strictly
aerobic.
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Prokaryotic cell vs.
Eukaryotic cell
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Eukaryotic
Protozoans in
pond water
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Archaea, the most primitive
forms of life
• Archaea use to be included with
bacteria, but geneticists have separated
them on the basis of their unique
genetic composition.
• Living archaea are all anaerobic and
they can tolerate extremes of heat and
chemistry.
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Archaea and
Bacteria on the tip of
a pin. False
colorized. Both are
prokaryotes.
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Archaea
• Retain evidence for life on early earth.
• Tolerate:
– boiling water
– poisonous gases: e.g., hydrogen
sulfide, carbon monoxide, etc.
– high doses of UV radiation
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Hot springs at Yellowstone National Park.
Analog for the early earth?
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Cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, give the hot
springs their distinctive color.
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Archaea
Living archaea include:
– fermenters: eat sugars
– methane producers: energy from
CO2 and hydrogen
– chemoautotrophs: make their food
from chemicals in their environment
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Where on earth did it happen?
• Darwin’s “warm little pond?”
concentrated “organic soup” (+)
no protection from UV radiation (-)
• Deep-sea volcanic vents?
protection from UV radiation (+)
heat destroys amino acids (-)
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The 5 Major Biochemical Steps
in the Evolution of Life
1. Fermentation – archaea
Sugar ethyl alcohol + 2 units of energy
2. Methane production – archaea
CO2 + 4H2 CH4 + 2 H20 + 1 unit of energy
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The 5 Major Biochemical Steps
in the Evolution of Life
3. Anaerobic photosynthesis – bacteria
H2S + CO2 sugar + water + sulphur
uses sunlight for energy
4. Aerobic photosynthesis - bacteria, 3.5 BY
H20 + CO2 sugar + O2
uses sunlight for energy
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The 5 Major Biochemical Steps
in the Evolution of Life
5. Aerobic respiration - bacteria and eukarya
Sugar + O2 H20 + CO2 + 36 units of energy
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Anaerobic photosynthetic archaea in boiling mud
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Cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, give the hot
springs their distinctive color.
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Populations of
archaea and
bacteria in hot
springs runoff,
Yellowstone
National Park
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Populations of archaea and bacteria in hot
springs runoff, Yellowstone National Park
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Sampling Organisms from Hot Springs
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Our Microbial
Origins
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Sex cells resemble free-living eukaryotes
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Cilia are used by free-living eukaryote cells
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White blood cells eat invaders the same way
free-living eukaryotes eat (amoebas)
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Mitochondria were once free-living,
aerobic purple bacteria
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Flagella are used by free-living eukaryotes
for locomotion