This document provides an introduction to life science concepts. It outlines the objectives of explaining the evolving concept of life, describing classic experiments on the origin of life, identifying seven properties of life, and describing unifying themes in the study of life. It then defines key life science terms and discusses the characteristics of living things. Several theories on the origin of life are presented, including spontaneous generation and the Miller-Urey experiment. Finally, nine unifying themes in life science are identified like biological systems, cellular basis of life, and evolution and diversity of life.
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Introduction to Life Science and The Theories on the Origin of LifeSimple ABbieC
I. Introduction to Life Science
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Unifying Themes in Life Science
These six general themes are levels of organization, the flow of energy, evolution, interacting systems, structure and function , ecology, and science and society.
Introduction to Life Science and The Theories on the Origin of LifeSimple ABbieC
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V. Unifying Themes in the Study of Life
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2. Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the learners will be able to:
1. Explain the evolving concept of life based on
emerging piece of evidence;
2. Describe the classic experiments that model
conditions which may have enabled the first forms to
evolve;
3. Describe seven emergent properties associated with
life;
4. Describe how unifying themes in the study of life
show the connections among living things and how
they interact with each other and with their
environment.
4. Introduction
• The term Biology was derived from bios
(referring to life) and logos (meaning study).
Literally therefore, it means the study of life.
• All living things are made of cells. Some
organisms are unicellular and consist of only
a single cell that carries out all life processes.
• Other organisms are multicellular and are
composed of many cells which perform
specialized and specific functions.
5. 7 Characteristics of Life
1. Response to Stimuli
– is the ability of
living things to react
to the factors of the
environment such
as life, temperature,
pressure, chemicals
and gravity.
6. 7 Characteristics of Life
2. Metabolism – refers
to the sum total of the
chemical reactions
taking place in an
organisms.
8. 7 Characteristics of Life
3. Reproduction – is the ability of living things
to produce new individuals closely resembling
them.
9. 7 Characteristics of Life
4. Growth and Development - means have a
capacity to grow and to develop. They either
grow new parts or increase in size.
10. 7 Characteristics of Life
5. Homeostasis - is maintaining a specific internal
environment. Organisms maintain the right ptf,
temperature and electrolyte concentration among
others to survive. Not being able to regulate the
internal environment would lead to death.
11. 7 Characteristics of Life
6. Adaptation – is one of the organisms’
means to survive. Living organisms over the
course of time have adapted to various
changing environmental conditions.
12. 7 Characteristics of Life
7. Organization – Living organism is
composed of cells which are also
composed of organelles and their
organelles such as the cell membrane is
again composed of macromolecules and
these macromolecules such as fats is
composed of atoms such as carbon,
hydrogen and other.
17. Special Creation Theory
• Many people believe that everything in
this world was created by a Supreme
being and with tfim nothing is
impossible. It was narrated in Genesis
1 : 1 - 2 8 , 2 : 1 - 4 of Bible.
18. Spontaneous Generation
1. Francesco Redi – put a piece of snake meat, a fish,
and a slice of veal in flasks, covered these with
Muslim cloth, and waited to see if maggots would
develop into meat. That maggots grew only if the
flies laid on their eggs on it.
19. Spontaneous Generation
2. Lazzaro Spallanzani – observed that meat juices
were boiled for three-quarters of an hour and then
sealed, no life developed.
20. Spontaneous Generation
3. Louis Pasteur – devised a culture flask which
admitted through a curved tube any bacteria
contained in the air and settled on their own weight
in the curve of tube. No life appeared in the flask.
21. Biogenetic Theory
•The invention of the
microscope and advances
in science made it clear
that living things created
other living things. When
the egg and the sperm
cell unite, they form a
zygote. This zygote would
then develop into an
organism. Microorganisms
like bacteria can give rise
to many more bacteria.
22. Beneath the Ice
• Billion years ago, Earth’s oceans were
covered with ice. This ice may have been
hundreds of meters thick, mainly due to the
sun being much less fierce than it is
nowadays. This theory contends that ice
may have protected the compounds,
allowing them to interact and, thereby,
creating life.
23. Electric Spark
• It has been proven that electricity can produce
simple sugars and amino acids from simple
elements in the atmosphere. This leads to the
theory that lightning may have been responsible for
the origins of life, primarily by striking through rich
volcanic clouds.
24. Panspermia (Cosmozoic theory)
Panspermia is the
proposal that life on
Earth began from
rocks, and other
debris from
impacts, in the
form of highly
resistant spores
(cosmozoa) such as
meteorite.
25. Submarine Hydrothermal Vents
• Submarine
hydrothermal vents
contain vast and
diverse ecosystems.
The nutrient-rich
environment filled
with reactive gases
and catalysts,
creates a habitat
teeming with life.
26. Hylomorphism
• Everything in the universe is
composed of matter with soul means
life. There are three kinds of soul –
vegetative, animal and rational soul.
27. Miller-Urey experiment
•Stanley Miller and Harold Urey conducted an
experiment to simulate the early conditions of the
earth that could have generated the first organic
molecule.
28. Endosymbiotic theory
• Some of the
prokaryotes entered
the ancestral
eukaryotes and dwell
inside and became a
part of the eukaryotic
cell.
29. Activity 2: Role Playing
• Group yourselves and make a drama
(role playing) about the early theories
of life and how eukaryotic cells came
into life.
32. 1. Biological Systems
• A system has properties
that are based on the
in
arrangement and
teractions of its parts.
An ecosystem such as
forest is a biological
system.
• The biological systems
theme applies to all levels
of life, from the
biosphere all the way
down to the interactions
of molecules in cells.
33. 2.The Cellular Basis of Life
• In most multicellular organisms, cells are organized
into higher levels of organization. Beginning with the
cellular level, the next is a tissue, which is a group of
similar cells that together perform a specific
function.
• Several types of tissue together may make up a
structure called an organ. The brain is an organ that
consists of nerve tissue and other types of tissues.
• Finally, several organs that together carry out a
major body function make up an organ system. In
this example, the brain, spinal cord, and nerves make
up the organ system called the nervous system.
34. 3. Structure and Function
• The relationship between structure and
function is apparent in the entire organism
and the physiological systems that serve
them. The structure determines function,
function reflects structure . Technically, they
are inseparable.
35. 4. Reproduction and Inheritance
• “Like begets like” the offspring inherits units
of information called gene from their
parents. Genes are responsible for family
resemblance.
• In humans, an egg cell from the mother fuses
with a sperm cell from the father. The result
is a fertilized cell containing a combination of
DNA from both parents.
36. 5. Environmental interactions
• No organism is completely isolated from its
surroundings. As part of an ecosystem, each
organism interacts continuously with its
environment. For the example, the plants’
three inputs for photosynthesis process.
37. 6. Energy and Life
• Work depends on a source of energy.
Energy is obtained from chemical
reactions.
• For example, enters energy an
ecosystem as sunlight and exits as
heat.
38. 7. Regulation
• Living organisms have the ability to
regulate their internal conditions.
• The ability of mammals and birds to
regulate body temperature is just one
example of homeostasis. Mechanisms
that enable organisms to regulate
their internal environment, despite
changes in external environment.
39. 8. Evolution and Diversity of life
• It explains changes in organisms over long
periods of time. This includes adaptation,
which allows life forms to acquire new
characteristics in response to their
environment through the process of natural
selection.
• Evolution explains the diversity of life, both
past and present. The transmission of traits
to the next generation with modification
through Natural selection explains the
diversity of life as well as the fossil record.
40. 9. Scientific Inquiry
• Scientific inquiry involves asking questions
about nature and then using observations or
experiments to find possible answers to those
questions.
41. References
• Acledan, M.Y. et al (2017). Earth and Life
Science for Senior tfigh. Mutya Publishing
tfouse, Inc. pp.86-88
• Bayo-Ang R.B. et al (2016). Earth and Life
Science for Senior tfigh. Mutya Publishing
tfouse, Inc. pp. 1 8 1 - 1 8 7
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