Francisco Redi- he Louis Pasteur- He proved to

challenged the idea of the world how microbe can

THEORIES ON Spontaneous Generation- spontaneous generation be destroyed by heating
this hypothesis that living
ORIGIN OF things come from non-
and presented his result as food to a certain
evidence that living things temperature, this process
LIFE living things come only from living this called pasteurization, an
and this is called important process of
biogenesis. preservation.

The First Prokaryotes-

Oxygen in the Atmosphere-
simple cells, heterotrophs The First Eukaryotes- These
The first cells were most
obtained energy from the are cells with their nuclei
likely anaerobic that does
nutrient-rich oceans. enclosed in nuclear
not need oxygen in order to
Autotrophs can make their membranes. Lyn Margulis
EARLY LIFE ON own food just like our
live. Cyanobacteria, a group
presented an interested
EARTH of photosynthesis bacteria, hypothesis is about the
plants today. Some were origin of the mitochondria
produced oxygen. This
able to use certain and the chloroplast of
eventually replaced
inorganic chemicals as eukaryotic cells. This idea is
methane and hydrogen
energy sources like called the endosymbiotic
sulfide that prevailed in the
bacteria living in mid-ocean theory.
atmosphere.
ridges. These organisms
are called