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Speculations on How Life Emerged on Earth
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on January 3, 2017 (go to class or lectures)
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banana, ancestor, long, bacterium, empirical, thymine, spontaneous, biochemistry, outside, replication, stomatolites, genetic, Ribonucleic, nucleic, proteins, hard, speculation, planet, unknown, decoding, ribose, tumefaciens, double, infect, complex, humans
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how could all of this                life have emerged from far more simple chemicals
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very little          data
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a lot of room for                       
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what we have is speculation based on some                    evidence
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current hypotheses for the emergence of life
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in any case
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it happened a          time ago
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in a place               
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1. panspermia hypothesis
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it might have arrived from                the earth
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e.g. in meteorites
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2.                        generation
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it might have happened here on the             
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agrobacterium                       
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             plants with cancer
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e.g. the                    is regulating the tree, instead of the tree doing what it wants to do for itself, it serves the bacterium
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the                material of the bacterium can change what a tree does
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therefore the genetics must be very similar, otherwise this would not work
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it points to similar                         
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points to a common ancestor
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when you eat an             
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the building blocks of a banana are similar to that of             
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if you try to eat a rock, you can't digest it
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tracing a common                 
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tree of line
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points to a common ancestor about 3.5 billion years ago
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tiny bacterial sitting on rocks
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necessities for life
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metabolism
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RNA
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between DNA and                 
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like the Swiss Army knife of the body
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stands for                        acid, which is a polymeric molecule essential in various biological roles in coding,                 , regulation, and expression of genes.
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RNA and DNA are                acids, and, along with proteins and carbohydrates, constitute the four major macromolecules essential for all known forms of life
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RNA differs from DNA in three ways
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RNA is single-stranded instead of             -stranded
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RNA contains             , DNA contains deoxyribose
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the complementary base to adenine in DNA is               , whereas in RNA, it is uracil
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you find these three conditions in liquid water and clay

Ideas and Concepts:

New academic term via this morning's Big History course: "Big History is an emerging academic discipline which examines history from the Big Bang to the present. It examines long time frames using a multidisciplinary approach based on combining numerous disciplines from science and the humanities, and explores human existence in the context of this bigger picture. It integrates studies of the cosmos, Earth, life, and humanity using empirical evidence to explore cause-and-effect relations. Big History distinguishes itself by studying the past using numerous time scales, from the Big Bang to modernity, unlike conventional history courses which typically begin with the introduction of farming and civilization, or with the beginning of written records. Courses generally do not focus on humans until more than halfway through, and, unlike conventional history courses, there is not much focus on individual kingdoms or civilizations or wars or national borders. If conventional history focuses on human civilization with humankind at the center, Big History focuses on the universe and shows how humankind fits within this framework and places human history in the wider context of the universe's history. Unlike conventional history, Big History tends to go rapidly through detailed historical eras such as the Renaissance or Ancient Egypt. It draws on the latest findings from biology, astronomy, geology, climatology, prehistory, archeology, anthropology, evolutionary biology, economics, cosmology, natural history, and population and environmental studies as well as standard history."
Speculations on How Life Emerged on Earth