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2. ⢠The conditions of pre-biotic Earth
⢠Experiments of Miller and Urey
⢠Hypothesis regarding first catalysts
⢠Theory that regarding RNA and replication
⢠Possible origin of membranes and prokaryotic
cells
⢠Endosymbiotic theory for the origin
of eukaryotes
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⢠There are processes that were needed for the
spontaneous generation of life on Earth:
â Non-living synthesis of simple organic molecules
â Assembly of these molecules into polymers
â Inheritance possible once self-replicating
molecules originated
â Packaging of these molecules into membranes
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⢠15 billion years after the âBig Bangâ, the planets
began to form.
⢠The atmosphere on Earth at this time probably
contained a variety of inorganic molecules:
â Water vapour
â Methane
â Ammonia
â Hydrogen
â Carbon dioxide
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⢠The energy for forming the organic molecules was
provided by:
â frequent thunder storms and lightning strikes
â volcanic activity
â meteorite bombardment
â high temperatures due to
greenhouse gases
â UV radiation
(no ozone so was extreme)
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⢠These elements and inorganic molecules are
presumed to have been sufficient for life to begin.
⢠The organic molecules may have been generated on
Earth or introduced from space.
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⢠The hypothesis that life on Earth originated by
introduction of complex organic chemicals or even
bacteria via comets is called panspermia.
⢠A shower of comets about
4 thousand million years ago
could have introduced complex
organic molecules and water to
the Earth and initiated chemical
evolution.
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⢠There was little to no oxygen in the atmosphere at
the time, as any oxygen was absorbed by rocks.
⢠This meant that there was no oxygen to steal
electrons away from other atoms (ie. oxidise them).
⢠This would have resulted in a âreducing atmosphereâ
which would have made the joining of simple
molecules to form more complex ones more likely.
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⢠Experiments have shown that it is possible to form
organic molecules in a reducing atmosphere
⢠However it is very difficult to do when there is
oxygen in the atmosphere
⢠This polymerisation process would allow the larger
chemicals needed by cells to form.
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⢠How were polymers â the basis of life itself â
assembled????
⢠In solution, hydrolysis of a growing polymer would
soon limit the size it could reach.
⢠This has led to a theory that early polymers were
assembled on solid, mineral surfaces that protected
them from degradation.
⢠In lab experiments they have been synthesized on
clay.
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⢠In current cells, DNA can replicate but it needs the
help of enzymes (proteins) to do this.
⢠The proteins are assembled based on information
carried on the DNA and transcribed into RNA.
⢠So what came first.....
the DNA to make proteins or
the proteins to make the DNA?!?!?!?!?
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⢠The synthesis of DNA and RNA requires proteins.
⢠So:
â proteins cannot be made without nucleic acids
and
â nucleic acids cannot be made without proteins
⢠Wrong!
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⢠The synthesis of nucleotides and their bases could
have happened easily.
⢠Once this had occurred, it is not hard to see how a
single strand of RNA could have formed.
⢠Once this had occurred, complementary base pairing
could have resulted in the non-enzymatic replication
of RNA.
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SOURCE: Purcell, D. (2009)
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⢠Self-replicating molecules are molecules that are
able to undergo replication.
⢠They are able to act as a template for copies of
themselves to be made.
⢠The only biological molecules capable of self-
replication are DNA & RNA.
⢠Unlike DNA, RNA sequences are capable of self-
replication: it can catalyse its formation from
nucleotides in the absence of proteins.
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SOURCE: Purcell, D. (2009)
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⢠The discovery that certain RNA molecules have
enzymatic activity provides a possible solution.
⢠These RNA molecules â called ribozymesâ
incorporate both the features required of life:
â storage of information
â the ability to act as catalysts
⢠Active ribozymes can be easily assembled from
shorter olignonucleotides (strands of nucleotides).
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⢠Ribozymes have been synthesized in the laboratory
and can catalyze exact complements of themselves.
⢠The ribozyme serves as both:
â the template on which short lengths of RNA
("oligonucleotidesâ) are assembled, following the
rules of base pairing and
â the catalyst for covalently linking these
oligonucleotides.
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SOURCE: Purcell, D. (2009)
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⢠Evidence for this ideas is provided by the fact that
many of the cofactors that play so many roles in life
are based on ribose:
ATP
NAD
FAD
coenzyme A
cyclic AMP
GTP
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⢠The development of the lipid bilayer was imitated in
the laboratory by Fox and his co-workers
⢠They heated amino acids without water and
produced long protein chains
⢠When water was added and
the mixture cooled, small
stable microspheres or
coacervates were formed
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⢠The coacervates seemed to be able to accumulate
certain compounds inside them so that they became
more concentrated than outside
⢠They also attracted lipids and
formed a lipid-protein layer
around them
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⢠If we assume that the coacervates also combined
with self-replicating molecules such as RNA, we are
looking at a very primitive organism...
⢠This is thought to have happened about 3.8 billion
years ago
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SOURCE: Purcell, D. (2009)
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SOURCE: Purcell, D. (2009)
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⢠The aggregates or coacervates are also known as
protobionts or proto cells.
⢠The most successful liposomes (protobiont in
presence of lipids) at surviving would have passed on
their characteristics and developed into early
prokaryotes!
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SOURCE: McFadden, G. (2009)
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SOURCE: McFadden, G. (2009)
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⢠Stanley Miller and Harold Urey worked on trying to
confirm some of these ideas regarding pre-biotic
Earth.
⢠In 1953, Miller set up an apparatus to simulate
conditions on the early Earth.
⢠The apparatus contained a warmed flask of water
simulating the primeval sea and an atmosphere of
water, hydrogen gas, CH4 (methane), and NH3
(ammonia).
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⢠Sparks were discharged in the synthetic atmosphere
to mimic lightning.
⢠Water was boiled, while a condenser cooled the
atmosphere, raining water and any dissolved
compounds back to the miniature sea.
⢠The simulated environment produced many types of
amino acids and other organic molecules leading
them to conclude the pre-biotic synthesis of organic
molecules was possible.
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⢠This spontaneous generation of organic molecules
was supported by investigation of meteorites.
⢠In 1970, a meteorite was found
to contain 7 different amino
acids, 2 of which are not found
in living things on Earth.
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SOURCE: McFadden, G. (2009)
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⢠Prokaryotes had the planet to themselves for about 2
billion years!
⢠Oxygen began to gradually accumulate in the
atmosphere on Earth.
⢠Bacteria evolved naturally to contain a form of
chlorophyll, which then allowed a simple form of
photosynthesis to occur.
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⢠This caused an explosive rise in the levels of
atmospheric oxygen known as the oxygen
catastrophe.
⢠This had an irreversible effect on the subsequent
evolution of life.
⢠The remaining chemicals in the âchemical soupâ in
the oceans were broken down into carbon dioxide
and oxidised sediments.
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⢠In addition, a layer of ozone (O3) began to form in
the upper atmosphere.
⢠This protected the planet
from UV radiation from
the Sun and blocked the
production of new organic
chemicals in the
âchemical soupâ.
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SOURCE: McFadden, G. (2009)
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SOURCE: McFadden, G. (2009)
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SOURCE: McFadden, G. (2009)
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⢠Grypania is ~2mm in diameter, so it is too big to be a
prokaryotic cell.
⢠Tappania is definitely too big and complicated to be
prokaryotic.
⢠Bangiomorpha had 3D structure! Definitely too
complicated to be prokaryotic!
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⢠The oldest fossils of eukaryotic cells have been found
to be approximately 1.5 billion years old.
⢠The endosymbiotic theory from Lyn Margulis (1967)
tries to explain how eukaryotic cells may have
evolved.
⢠Endosymbiosis: the condition in which one organism
lives inside the cell of another organism
⢠Both cells benefit from this - the cells no longer can
live separately from each other
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⢠Mitochondria and chloroplasts were once free living
bacteria cells:
â Mitochondriaď aerobic bacteria
â Chloroplastsď photosynthetic bacteria
⢠These cells were âswallowed upâ by other cells by
endocytosis ď cells engulfed but not eaten
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⢠Mitochondria:
â additional energy (aerobic respiration) and
receives protection
⢠Chloroplast:
â provide food by photosynthesis and receives
protection
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⢠Prokaryotes are similar to mitochondria and
chloroplasts:
â Similar size
â Similar ribosomes (70S)
â Contain DNA that is different from the nucleus
â Surrounded by double membrane
â Formation of new organelles resembles binary
fission
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⢠The four eukaryotic kingdoms are:
â Protoctista
â Fungi
â Plantae
â Animalia
⢠Eukaryotic cells have some advantages over
prokaryotic cells so the early eukaryotes survived
and proliferated
⢠Hence the wide diversity of species we know today!
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