Change 3.5 bya to 100,000 ya  First life to Homo Sapiens

First life emerged 3.5 billion yrs ago

byago: :3                 2.7                  2           1.7      l.2                .6                    .6                .6 

After 1 billion years atoms discover four methods of replication.

(1) Photoautorophs:  harness light to derive organic compounds from carbon dioxide – the method of plants and algae.

(2) Chemoautotraphs:  feed on carbon dioxide derived from inorganic substances as hydrogen sulfide and ammonia.

(3) Photoheterotrophs:   use light to make ATP molecules where input carbon is in organic form.

(4) Chemoherotrophis:  consume organic molecules for energy and carbon – the method of fungi & animals. 

(a) 3 billion yr old fossil from Australian. (b) Bacteria on head of a pin.

Bacteria do essential food processing and cause most major diseases.  Archaes inhabit extreme conditions, occupy animal digestive tracts, digest grass and give off methane gas

Pharmaceutical companies use cells to produce antibiotic drugs.

    

Eukaryotic, membrane housed cells, emerged 1.7 billion yrs ago, containing DNA replication codes.

 

Membrane packaged cells captured specialized small cells, above left, and kept them as specialized organelles serving a colony of specialized functions.  Their genetic codes were combine, creating new critters, each dedicated to it’s own survival.   This was possible by evolving a housing membrane of “double door’s” – food comes in, waste goes out – one layer at a time, preserving the cell’s integrity.  

Sunlight powers plant chemistry, while animals and fungi live off plants –nature recycles it’s parts.

   

Plant cell left and animal cell right, similar but different

Most DNA is contained in the Nucleus

                        

Right:  Synthesis of mRNA  to cytoplasm to synthesis of Protein

Algae is a major producer of oxygen in earths atmosphere.

  

(a) Green algae, an edible species (b) Red algae abundant in the warm coastal waters. (c) Brown algae includes the largest seaweeds, known as kelp.

Living on land poses problems. Light and carbon dioxide are available above-ground, while water and mineral nutrients are found in the soil.

 

Most plants have symbiotic fungi with their roots

 

Plants breath through leaves.

  

Leaves are the photosynthetic organs of plants, exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen between the atmosphere and the photosynthetic interior of a leaf occurs via microscopic pores through the leafs surface.

Algae to flowering plants.

Million yrs ago:        600                 450                   380                   350                 150

                    Green Algae      Mosses              Ferns            Conifers       Flowering plants

Ecosystems would collapse without fungi to decompose dead organisms.

  

(a) Flowering Plants   (b) Fungai  Mushroom have a tightly packed stem that extend upward from a massive root system growing underground where the cottony threads decompose organic litter.

 

 

   

(a) Sponge  (b) Anatomy of a sponge (c) Anatomy of earthworm. (d) Arthropod, a lobster. 

Anthropods

  

(a) Scorpions  among the first terrestrial carnivores.  (b) Spiders  hunt insects or trapping them in webs.  (c) magnified house dust mite is a ubiquitous scavenger in our homes.

 

(a) The mouth of a sea star is in the center of the undersurface,  tube feet function in feeding. pushes its stomach out through its mouth to digests its prey. (b)  sea urchins graze on seaweed and algae. (c)  Sea cucumbers have rows of  feet.

 

Myrs:  560           550          540            510            410            380          350            200            350

  Chordate  Chordate  Vertebrae    Jaws       Lungs        Legs       Eggs       Feathers       Hair

                                                         Sharks Bony fish  Amphibians Reptiles     Birds    Animals

 

    

 

 million yrs ago:      58           40           40          35          15            8            8           8 

                    Prosimians, New & Old World,  Gibbons, Orangutans, Gorillas, Chimpanzees. Human

 

      

100,000 yrs ago Homo Sapiens emergence from Africa