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Lecture I-1 Introduction To The Study of Life
Lecture I-1 Introduction To The Study of Life
Bio 1
Introduction to the
Study of Life
Michael C. Velarde, Ph.D.
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Biology
What is Life?
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Complex. Life
resists a simple,
one-sentence
definition
Recognizable.
yet we can
recognize life by
what living things
do
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Physical characteristics of
life is manifested from an
organism’s organization
Schrödinger's paradox
“How can the events in space and time
which take place within the spatial boundary
of a living organism be accounted for by
physics and chemistry?”
- Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life (1944)
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Schrödinger's paradox
The second law of thermodynamics states that in every real
process the sum of the entropies of all participating bodies is
increased.
Schrödinger's paradox
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3. Metabolism
Ability to use
energy and
transform it to
do work
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4. Homeostasis
Maintain
Body
Temperature
Shiver Sweat
4. Homeostasis
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5. Reproduction
6. Response to Stimulus
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Thousands to
millions of years
of natural selection
Ancestral canine
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Microscopic image of a
tissue sample from
human brain showing a
clump of infectious
prions
Scientific Method of
Studying Life
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Deductive Reasoning
– Examining individual cases by applying
accepted general principles.
Application of theories and
principles (Medical
Practitioners, Engineers)
Inductive Reasoning
– Discovering general principles through
examination of specific cases.
Creation of theories and
Suggest that lions are kept
behind close doors
principles (Researchers)
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Rationale
Theories
Principles
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Limitations of Science
Origin of Life
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2. Biogenesis
3. Intelligent Design
4. Biogeochemical Theories
1. Spontaneous Generation
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1. Spontaneous Generation
decaying meat
maggots
decaying meat
1. Spontaneous Generation
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1. Spontaneous Generation
1. Spontaneous Generation
In 1862, Louis
Pasteur did
experiments
which provided
the final
argument to
disprove the
theory
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Pasteur
conducted broth
experiments that
rejected the idea
of spontaneous
generation
2. Biogenesis
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3. Intelligent Design
3. Intelligent Design
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3. Intelligent Design
based on faith
4. Biogeochemical Theory
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4. Biogeochemical
Theory
Four stages:
(1) the abiotic synthesis of
small organic molecules
4. Biogeochemical Theory
In 1953, Stanley
Miller and Harold
Urey tested the
Oparin-Haldane
hypothesis by
creating, in the
laboratory, the
conditions that
had been postulated
for early Earth.
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4. Biogeochemical Theory
First organisms came into being between 4.0 billion years ago,
when the Earth’s crust began to solidify, and 3.5 billion years
ago when stromatolites appear
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