Activity 1: My Life in Timeline

Directions: Picture out a history of

your life. Create a timeline that will
reflect the events that happened to
you in the past.
Today I am 18 years old and I
am a Senior High School
Student
OBJECTIVES
K- Describe the conditions on early
Earth that made the origin of life
possible and the first life forms.
S - Identify the evolving concept of life
based on emerging pieces of
evidence.
A- Cite ways on how to preserve and
Paleontology- the branch of science concerned with fossil
animals and plants.
PALEOZOIC ERA Cephalopods

Trilobites
MESOZOIC ERA “Age of the Reptiles”
Cenozoic Era
 Zircon Crystal
Stromatolites
What was the first form of
life?
 Life is believed to have existed on earth for
billions of years now.
 Scientists do not know exactly when life
began on Earth. However, they can trace
how life developed and evolved using
some pieces of evidence. Earth is much
older than life.
 Based on radioactive decay studies of
rocks, it was revealed that Earth is around
4.5 billion years old – 1 billion years older
 How did life begin?

Where did it come from?

https://link.quipper.com/en/organizations/59487b1ca8a9ff7fe3000007/curriculum#curriculum
Theories on how life could have
begun
1. Extraterrestrial Origin
The hypothesis explains that
life originated on another planet
outside our Solar System. Life was
then carried to Earth on a
meteorite or an asteroid and
colonized Earth. However, this
hypothesis has not been proven.
http://micetimes.asia/scientists-have-proved-the-possibility-of-an-extraterrestrial-origin-of-life/
2. Panspermia

The theory presumes that the

“seed” of life exists all over the
universe and can be propagated
through space, and that life on
Earth originated from those seeds.
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/in-search-of-panspermia/
3. Divine creation

Many people believe that life

was put on Earth by divine forces.
Creation theories are common to
many of the world’s religions and
cultures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism
4. Origin from nonliving matter
Scientist believed that life arose
on Earth from inanimate matter after
Earth had cooled. They stated that
random events probably produced
stable molecule that could self-
replicate. Then, natural selection
favored changes in the rate of
https://futurism.com/abiogenesis-life-may-have-evolved-from-non-living-matter-with-relative-ease
 There are many theories about the
origin of life. Some believed that
living organisms were put to Earth by
some divine forces.
 Others say that life did not originate
from Earth but from other planets.
 But among scientists, the most
accepted theory is that life came
 According to the primordial soup
theory proposed by Alexander
Oparin and John Haldane, life
started in a primordial soup of
organic molecules.
 Some form of energy from lightning
combined with the chemicals in the
atmosphere to make the building
 Evidence of the first life forms of
life
A. Experiment
American chemist Stanley Miller
performed an experiment replicated early
Earth conditions. Together with Harold
Urey, he provided proof that amino acids
and other organic molecules could be
formed.
Stanley Miller Harold Urey
 Miller-Urey experiment

The atmosphere that Miller and Urey

introduced into the flasks contained
simple molecules that were probably
present in the early Earth’s atmosphere:
hydrogen, CO2, methane, water vapor,
nitrogen, ammonia, and carbon
monoxide.
 They heated the mixture and zapped it with
electrical sparks to stimulate lightning. Within days,
a dark, smelly mixture developed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_exp
eriment
 When this mixture was analyzed, they found that
many complex molecules had formed, including
some amino acids, which are the building blocks
of proteins.
 Using slightly different combinations of starting
molecules, Miller and other scientist where able to
generate many amino acids, RNA and DNA
B.FOSSILS

One of the strongest pieces of

evidence that show many life
forms existed in the Earth in the
past 3.5 billion years.
1. Bone Fossil
2. Shell Fossil
3. Plant Fossil
How do fossil forms?

Over long periods of time,

particles piled up on the remains
of organisms and eventually
became sedimentary rocks,
preserving the original body
 Microfossils
• Fossil fragments
that can only be
seen by
microscope
• Existed in mats
and formed
layered structures
https://www.slideshare.net/RuwyneAkkeanObedient/thehistorical development-of-theconcept-of-life
 Stromatolites
• a calcareous mound built up of
layers of lime-secreting prokaryotes,
or single-celled organisms, called
cyanobacteria (the blue-green
algae) and trapped sediment, found
in Precambrian rocks as the earliest
known fossils, and still being formed in
https://www.slideshare.net/Ruwy neAkkeanObedient/the historical development-of- the- concept-of-life
 Cyanobacteria
• Believed by scientists to be the first
oxygen-producing organisms that
helped evolve the Earth’s early
atmosphere into one that can support
early life forms
• As these microorganisms continued
generating oxygen, other
photosynthetic organisms evolved and
• This increased the chance of
more and more oxygen reaction
ammonia, a reaction that results in
the release of nitrogen into
atmosphere.
• This resulted in the formation of
the ozone layer!
• A rapid evolution of life occurred
 Early Forms of Life

The first form of life is believed

to have appeared some 3.5
billion years ago. The first
evidence of life is found in
microfossils.
 Microfossils
 are fossils that contain the
remains of tiny plants and
animals.
 They are very small and can
be measured in millimeters,
and some could only be
 Some of the remains of
organisms do not have a
nucleus so they were called
prokaryotes.
 They are known to be the
earliest forms of life.
 They have survived the extreme
 They started to make their own
food by utilizing the energy
from the sun and the carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere.
These are the photosynthetic
organisms.
 The process of photosynthesis
produced more oxygen that
changed the Earth’s early
atmosphere. This change in the
atmosphere allowed oxygen-
breathing organisms to exist.
 The cyanobacteria are the first
photosynthetic organisms to
form.
 Their microfossils are among the
easiest to recognize. Their
morphology remained the
same and they left chemical
 The first microfossil that showed
remains of organisms with
differences in structure from the
simple form of life was seen in
rocks about 1.5 billion years old.
 They are larger than bacteria
and have internal membranes
and thicker wall. These findings
marked the beginning of
eukaryotic organisms on Earth.
How did multicellular
organisms evolve?
 Multicellular organisms are
believed to have evolved from
unicellular eukaryotes. Some
single eukaryotic cells, like
unicellular algae, formed
multicellular aggregates
through association with
 From colonial aggregates, the
organisms evolved to form
multicellular organisms through
cell specialization.
 Protozoans, sponges, and fungi
came to being.
 The first fossilized animals which
were discovered 580 million
years ago were soft-bodied.
 The continuous process of cell
specialization brought the
emergence of complex and
diverse plants and animals,
including human beings.
 Evidence from fossil layers
proved that different forms of
life were present and have
 According to Charles Darwin,
organisms change over time
because of adaptation to their
environment to survive.
 ACTIVITY 3 – Identify It!

Directions: Identify the pieces of

evidences/organisms on the evolution of life.
Write your answer on the space provided. Pick
your answer from the terms inside the box.
In your own
locality/community, how
can you help preserve
and
conserve life?
 The origin of life is one of the
great mysteries in the Universe.
 To determine the origin of life,
scientists are investigating the
problem in several different
ways.
 Some scientists are studying life
 Some scientists are seeking out life
or fossil life on other planets or
moons in our solar system.
 And other scientists are trying to
detect life in other solar systems,
either by measuring life’s effects on
the atmospheres of distant planets
or by measuring artificial radiation
like radio signals that may be
EVALUATION/POST-TEST

 Directions: Multiple choice. Choose

the answer correctly. Write the
answers in your activity notebook.
1. When did the early forms of life
exist?
A. 1.5 billion years ago
B. 2.5 billion years ago
C. 4.5 billion years ago
D. 3.5 billion years ago
2. Where is the first form of life
seen?
A. microfossils
B. layers of rocks
C. oceanic crusts
D. sediments
3. Which of the following is the first
photosynthetic organism to form?
A. cyanobacteria
B. algae
C. fungi
D. gymnosperm
4. Which is not true about the
prokaryotes?
A. They are simple in structure, small,
and unicellular.
B. They do not have nucleus.
C. They survive in extreme conditions.
D. They are not capable of making
their own food.
5. Which of the following processes
brought changes in the early
atmosphere?
A. earthquake
B. extreme condition
C. photosynthesis
D. volcanic eruption
6. The following are multicellular
organisms first evolved from colonial
aggregates except:
A. fungi
B. protozoans
C. sponges
D. mollusks
7. Which of the following statements
is not correct?
A. Photosynthetic organisms decreased
the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere.
B. Organisms change over time because
of adaptation for survival.
C. Multicellular organisms evolved
from unicellular eukaryotes.
D. The earliest forms of life were the
prokaryotes.
8.All the following statements are true
about the evolution of multicellular
organisms except:
A. They are formed from multicellular
colonial aggregates through cell
specialization.
B. They are believed to have evolved from
single-celled prokaryotes.
C. The process of continuous specialization
brought more complex organisms.
9. Why do you think the emergence of
plants and animals came later than
simple living organisms?
A. They are too big and take time to
form.
B. They are the least important factor in
the environment.
C. Their cell structures are more complex.
D. They contain more nucleus compared
10. Considering the present condition of the
environment, do you think living organisms are still
evolving today?
A. Yes, because humans continuously alter the
environment that triggers evolution among living
organisms to survive.
B. No because the environment remains favorable
to living organisms.
C. Yes because it is a natural phenomenon which
we cannot stop from happening.
D. No because there is no condition outside their
 Additional Activity

Write a short poem that will

discuss the importance of
knowing the concepts of the
history of life to human beings
and other living organisms.