Biochemical Evolutdion
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Biochemical Evolution
Prebiotic World
What had to happen before life could exist
on earth?
What kinds of molecules may have been
present in earth’s early atmosphere?
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Methane
Ammonia
Hydrogen
Water
Biochemical Macromolecules
What did Miller and
Urey do to find out
whether complex
organic molecules
could have formed
spontaneously?
Biological Macromolecules
Products of Urey-Miller Experiment
Biological Macromolecules
Evolution
What characterizes evolving systems?
– Ability to replicate
– Variation
– Competition
Molecular Evolution
How did Spiegelman demonstrate molecular
evolution in a test tube?
Molecular Evolution
What are ribozymes
and what have they
contributed to our
ideas about evolution?
Molecular Evolution
How can amino acids play both synthetic and
catalytic roles?
Molecular Evolution
How does the variation needed for evolution come
to exist?
Molecular Evolution
What advantages does DNA have over RNA
as the genetic storehouse?
– 2-deoxyribose not suscetible to hydrolytic
cleavage
– Methyl group of thymine contributes to DNA
repair
Energy & Living Systems
What is the role of ATP and how is it made in
cells?
Energy & Living Systems
What is the nature of the cell membrane and how
does it affect the contents of the cell?
Energy & Living Cells
How did evolving
cells deal with the
harmful effects of
osmosis?
Energy & Living Cells
How are proton
gradients used inside
of cells?
Energy & Living Cells
What biochemical process evolved first,
photosynthesis or respiration?
Cells Respond to
Environmental Change
In what ways do cells sense changes in their
environment?
What enables cells to respond?
Cells Respond to
Environmental Change
What enables cells to
move?
Cells Respond to
Environmenmtal change
Under what conditions do individual cells form
colonies?
Cells Respond to
Environmental Change
What can we learn by
studying simple
organisms like the
worm C. elegans?