1 & 2 - Concept and Manifestations of Life
1 & 2 - Concept and Manifestations of Life
1 & 2 - Concept and Manifestations of Life
Manifestations of Life
Topic 1
What is LIFE?
Organization and
Order
Reproduction
Energy
processing
Response to the
environment
Homeostasis
Evolutionary adaptation
Biosphere
Ecosystem
Community
Population
Organism
Organisms
Organization and
Order
Ecosystem:
Forest in
Madagascar
Biosphere
Madagascar
characteristics
of life emerge
from an
organisms
organization
Community:
All organisms in
the forest
Population:
Group of ring-tailed
lemurs
Organ system
Organ
Tissue
Cell
Organelle
Molecule
Atom
Spinal cord
Organ system:
Nervous system Brain
Organ:
Brain
Nerve
Tissue:
Nervous tissue
Cell:
Nerve cell
Atom
Nucleus
Organelle:
Nucleus
Molecule:
DNA
Coyote
Fox
Wolf
Jackal
Thousands to
millions of years
of natural selection
Ancestral canine
www.fotosearch.com/comp/ITS/ITS223/itf139053.jpg
2. BIOGENESIS
3. SPECIAL CREATION
http://www.artoftheprint.com/jpegimages/rausch_anton_mother_and_child.jpg
www.bibledirectories.com/.../What-is-it.html
5. BIOGEOCHEMICAL THEORY
Panspermia Theory suggests that life seeds came from outer space and planets
exchanged life.
http://www.rogerwendell.com/images/evolution/dmns_recipe_for_life_09-02-2006.jpg
Time Line of
Life on Earth
Alternatively, we
can view the time
line with a clock
analogy.