hidden somewhere
The story….….. unrevealed
The truth….. not known exactly
The path…. untraced
An attempt to explore the way!!!
ORIGIN OF LIFE
An effort to blend biology, chemistry,
and physics in the search to identify and
understand the origin of life in the
universe
It’s a “Journey Back In Time”…
By Kalpana Stuti, Ritu, Gauri
Miranda House
ORIGIN OF LIFE
BIG BANG
Oceans
Haldane soup
Simple Molecules
“CELL”
ENERGY YIELDING SYSTEM
• “Cell” Energy Yielding System
O2 evolved
Anaerobes Aerobes
Chemotrophs Heterotrophs
Chemoheterotrophs Chemoautotrophs
Prokaryotic Cells Eukaryotic cell
Endosymbiotic Theory
How Eukaryotic Cell Changed to
Multicellular Organism….
EVIDENCES???
• Geological Evidence
• Laboratory Evidence
GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
• Sedimentary rock in past 500 million years are
silicate sands clay, quartz type indicating oxidizing
conditions.
Sunlight
Chloroplast Reduced Dye
e- + Dye (colour change)
Ascorbic
Acid + Dye
PANSPERMIA THEORY
Organic compounds arrived from outer space
It states that hydrocarbons and other organic
molecules (molecules that organisms contain or that
might lead to the genesis of life) have been found in
meteorites –
It means that at least prebiotic chemistry that leads
to the primordial soup might be going on there.
Evidences in support of this theory
• In 1969, a meteorite landed in Australia that was 12%
water and contained traces of 92 amino acids.
Inference- It points to not only the presence of
organic compounds in outer space, but also the
capacity of such compounds to reach earth.
A vent community in its prime: Pale pink eelpout fish and white
brachyuran crabs swim and scuttle among blood-red tube worms
large and small. Scientists are still trying to figure out how the
offspring of such organisms disperse over long stretches of
inhospitable seafloor to colonize widely separated vent systems.
Giant Clams
• Their insides are lined with bacteria that oxidize the H2S,
turning it into usable nutrients for the worms.
NH3
Stable upto 800oC
RESULTS
• Since NH3 cannot survive at temperature above 800oC
indicates that nitrogen would have been present only
as N2 during early phase of earth’s development.
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