GEN-BIO-2-History of Life On Earth
GEN-BIO-2-History of Life On Earth
GEN-BIO-2-History of Life On Earth
BIOLOGY 2
MS. RUTH LYN H. PALISA
LET’S RECALL
OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, you are expected to:
• Describe general features of the history of life on
Earth, including generally accepted dates and
sequence of the geologic time scale and characteristics
of major groups of organisms present during these
time periods.
Lesson 1:
HISTORY OF LIFE
ON EARTH
The Origin of Life
• Geologic pieces of evidence show that
Earth was not formed from a single event.
Our planet was formed by different pieces
of cosmic debris that were probably
attracted to one another over a course of
about 100 million years.
First Organic Molecules
• American chemists Stanley Miller and Harold
Urey conducted an experiment in the 1950s,
which involved the simulating the early
conditions of Earth inside the laboratory. In their
experiment, they filled a flash with hydrogen,
methane, ammonia, and water to represent the
early atmosphere of earth.
How Life Began
• Scientist believe that microscopic cell-like
structures similar to the modern bacteria
appeared 200-300 million years after. These
cell like structures were actually large organic
molecule known as proteinoid microspheres.
Origin of Eukaryotic Cells
• Endosymbiosis is a type of relationship wherein an
organism lives inside the its partner. According to the
endosymbiotic theory, eukaryotic cells created a
symbiotic relationship with prokaryotic organism- one
group can produce ATP, and the other group can do
photosynthesis. These organism became mitochondria
and chloroplast, respectively.
Multicellularity and Sexual Reproduction
• Asexual reproduction that only produces
offspring that are genetically identical to their
parents, sexual reproduction produces organisms
that never exactly resemble their parents. These
changes in genetic information result in
increased chances of evolutionary changes in a
species.
Paleontology is the
scientific study of the
existence of life,
including the origin and
eventual destruction or
extinction of different
groups of organisms.
Geology is the study of life
on earth based on the
evidence found on rocks.
Geologists are scientist who
carefully study the different
materials that make up earth.
Geologic timescale is used to
represent the evolutionary
time.
EONS
Eons are the largest divisions in the geologic
timeline.