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The Evolution of Life
Life from Non-LifeWhat We Know and NotWhy It’s Important
 
 
Early Theories and Breakthroughs
•Spontaneous generation: Life can come fromnon-life
 –Maggots come from decaying meat; worms from hair;frogs, mice from slime, beetles from dung, etc.
•Francesco Redi – found maggots don’t form onmeat in sealed jars, disproving spontaneousgeneration•Leeuwenhoek (1675) – found the microscopiclife stages of insects; later he found bacteria,sperm•Pasteur – explained the roles of pathogens incausing disease, microbes in fermentation
 
 
So How Did Life Begin?And why assume a common origin?
•Out of many types of natural amino acids,only 20 are used by living things, all left-handed•All organisms use DNA and RNA for reproduction•All cells use ATP for energy
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