INTRODUCTION TO LIFE SCIENCE

Life Science

-It is the study of living things

 INTRODUCTION TO LIFE SCIENCE
Definition of terms
Life Science -is the study of living things. -life arose from inanimate matter aster Earth cooled.

-random events probably produced stable molecules that

Life -is any system that is capable of life could self-replicate.

Microfossils – fossils that contain the remains of EARLY LIFE FORMS

tiny animals and animals.
Oldest rock=3.8 yrs old
THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN -no fossil found
OF LIFE
Oldest fossil
1.EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGIN -found in 3.5 billion yr old rocks
-life originated on another planet outside our Solar * tiny fossils=BACTERIA
System.
Note:
-life was then carried to Earth on a meteorite or an
asteroid and colonized Earth. - Some organisms' remains do not have a nucleus,
so they are called prokaryotes. They survived
.*not proven extreme conditions.
- They start to make own food by utilizing energy
2.PANSPERMIA (Cosmozoic Theory) from sun and CO2 in atmosphere.These are
photosynthetic organisms.
-Richter (1865) and supported by Arrhenius (1908). - Process of photosynthesis produced more
-life originated in space, in spatial ices, and continuously O.Cyanobacteria is the 1st photosynthetic
distributed to the planets by comets and meteorites. organisms to form.
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Life has reached the planet Earth from other heavenly
bodies such as meteorites, in the form of highly resistant
spores of microorganisms (cosmozoa/panspermia)
because they are preserved inside meteorites coming to
Earth.

-Gk.,”seeds everywhere”

-the “seed” of life exists all over the universe and can be
propagated through space

>contains extremophile organisms or organisms that

survive in extreme conditions, then had come to earth in
form of resistant spores.

2.DIVINE CREATION
-Life was put on Earth by divine forces.

-common to many of the world’s religions and cultures.

4.PHYSICO-CHEMICAL THEORY
(Origin from Nonliving Matter)