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PowerPoint® Lecture Presentations for
Biology Eighth Edition
Neil Campbell and Jane Reece
Lectures by Chris Romero, updated by Erin Barley with contributions from Joan Sharp
Chapter 25Chapter 25
The History of Life on Earth
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Need to Know – The Big Six
1. The age of the Earth and when prokaryotic and eukaryotic life emerged.
2. Characteristics of the early planet and its atmosphere.
3. How Miller and Urey tested the Oparin-Haldane hypothesis and what they learned.
4. Methods used to date fossils and rocks.
5. Evidence for endosymbiosis.
6. How continental drift can explain the current distribution of species.
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Overview: Lost Worlds
• Past organisms were very different from those now alive
• The fossil record shows macroevolutionary changes over large time scales including
– The emergence of terrestrial vertebrates
– The origin of photosynthesis
– Long-term impacts of mass extinctions
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Early Earth and the Origin of Life
• Conditions on early Earth made the origin of life possible.
• The current theory about how life arose indicates that chemical and physical processes on early Earth may have produced simple cells in a sequence of four main stages:
1. Small organic molecules were abiotically synthesized.
2. These molecules joined into macromolecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids.
3. All these molecules were packaged into protobionts, membrane-containing droplets, whose internal chemistry differed from that of the external environment.
4. Self-replicating molecules emerged that made inheritance possible.
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The Formation of Earth
• Earth was formed about 4.6 billions years ago, and life on Earth emerged about 3.8 to 3.9 billion years ago.
• For the first three-quarters of Earth’s history, all of its living organisms were microscopic and primarily unicellular.
• Earth’s early atmosphere likely contained water vapor and chemicals released by volcanic eruptions (nitrogen, nitrogen oxides, carbon dioxide, methane, ammonia, hydrogen, hydrogen sulfide).
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• The hypothetical early conditions of Earth have been simulated in laboratories, and organic molecules have been produced.
– A. I. Oparin and J. B. S. Haldane hypothesized that the early atmosphere, thick with water vapor, nitrogen, carbon dioxide methane, ammonia, hydrogen, and hydrogen sulfide, provided with energy from lightening and UV radiation, could have formed organic compounds, a primitive “soup” from which life arose.
– Miller and Urey tested this hypothesis and produced a variety of amino acids.
Hypothetical Early Conditions of Earth
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The Miller-Urey experimenthttp://bcs.whfreeman.com/thelifewire/content/chp03/0301s.swf
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Protobionts
• Replication and metabolism are key properties of life.
• Protobionts are aggregates of abiotically produced molecules surrounded by a membrane or membrane-like structure.
– Protobionts exhibit simple reproduction and metabolism and maintain an internal chemical environment
– Experiments demonstrate that protobionts could have formed spontaneously from abiotically produced organic compounds
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Self-Replicating RNA and the Dawn of Natural Selection
• The first genetic material was probably RNA, not DNA
• RNA molecules called ribozymes have been found to catalyze many different reactions
– For example, ribozymes can make complementary copies of short stretches of their own sequence or other short pieces of RNA
• Early protobionts with self-replicating, catalytic RNA would have been more effective at using resources and would have increased in number through natural selection
• The early genetic material might have formed an “RNA world”
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The Fossil Record
• The fossil record is the sequencd in which fossils appear in the layers of sedimentary rock that constitute Earth’s surface.
– The fossil record reveals changes in the history of life on earth
– Sedimentary rocks are deposited into layers called strata and are the richest source of fossils
– Few individuals have fossilized, and even fewer have been discovered
– The fossil record is biased in favor of species that
• Existed for a long time
• Were abundant and widespread
• Had hard parts
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How Rocks and Fossils Are Dated
• Sedimentary strata reveal the relative ages of fossils:
– In relative dating, the order of rock strata is used to determine the relative age of fossils.
• The absolute ages of fossils can be determined by radiometric dating
– Radiometiric dating uses the decay of radioactive isotopes to determine the age of the rocks or fossils.
– It is based on the rate of decay, or half-life of the isotope (the time required for half the parent isotope to decay).
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Key Events in Life’s History
• Key events in life’s history include the origins of single-celled and multicelled organisms.
– The earliest living organisms were prokaryotes.
– About 2.7 billion years ago, oxygen began to accumulate in Earth’s atmosphere as a result of photosynthesis.
– Eukaryotes apeared about 2.1 billion years ago.
– Multicellular eukaryotes evolved about 1.2 billion years ago.
– The colonization of land occurred about 500 million years ago, when plants, fungi, and animals began to appear on Earth.
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The Effect of Oxygen on the Evolution of Life
• By about 2.7 billion years ago, O2 began accumulating in the atmosphere and rusting iron-rich terrestrial rocks
• A byproduct of oxygenic photosynthesis was the release of oxygen. As oxygen accumulated in the atmosphere:
– It first dissolved into the surrounding water until the seas and lakes became saturated with oxygen.
– Additional oxygen would then react with dissolved iron and precipitate as iron oxide.
– Then additional oxygen finally began to “gas out” of the seas etc. and accumulate in the atmosphere.
– The ozone layer was created.
– As the ozone absorbed UV rays, the major source of energy for abiotic synthesis of organic molecules and primitive cells was terminated.
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The Effect of Oxygen on the Evolution of Life
• This “oxygen revolution” from 2.7 to 2.2 billion years ago– Posed a challenge for life
– Provided opportunity to gain energy from light
– Allowed organisms to exploit new ecosystems
• The accumulation of oxygen had a tremendous impact on Earth:
– Corrosive O2 attacks chemical bonds, and so doomed many prokaryotes.
– Some survived in anaerobic environments (obligate anaerobe survivors).
– Others adapted forms of cellular respiration.
– Organic molecules and primitive cells were terminated.
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Endosymbiosis and the First Eukaryoteshttp://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/9834092339/student_view0/chapter4/animation_-_endosymbiosis.html
• The oldest fossils of eukaryotic cells date back 2.1 billion years
• The hypothesis of endosymbiosis proposes that mitochondria and plastids (chloroplasts and related organelles) were formerly small prokaryotes living within larger host cells
• An endosymbiont is a cell that lives within a host cell
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• The prokaryotic ancestors of mitochondria and plastids probably gained entry to the host cell as undigested prey or internal parasites
• In the process of becoming more interdependent, the host and endosymbionts would have become a single organism
• Serial endosymbiosis supposes that mitochondria evolved before plastids through a sequence of endosymbiotic events
Endosymbiosis and the First Eukaryotes
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Endosymbiosis Theory (Lynn Margulis, 1970’s)
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• The endosymbiotic hypothesis proposes that mitochondria and plastids (chloroplasts) were formerly small prokaryotes that began living within larger cells. Evidence for this hypothesis includes:
– Both organelles have enzymes and transport systems homologous to those found in the plasma membranes of living prokaryotes.
– Both replicate by a splitting process similar to prokaryotes.
– Both contain a single, circular DNA molecule, not associated with histone proteins.
– Both have their own ribosomes which translate their DNA into proteins.
Evidence Supporting the Endosymbiotic Theory
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The Origin of Multicellularity
• The evolution of eukaryotic cells allowed for a greater range of unicellular forms
• A second wave of diversification occurred when multicellularity evolved and gave rise to algae, plants, fungi, and animals
• Comparisons of DNA sequences date the common ancestor of multicellular eukaryotes to 1.5 billion years ago
• The oldest known fossils of multicellular eukaryotes are of small algae that lived about 1.2 billion years ago
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The Rise and Fall of Dominant Groups
• The rise and fall of dominant groups reflect continental drift, mass extinctions, and adaptive radiations.
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Consequences of Continental Drift
• Formation of the supercontinent Pangaea about 250 million years ago had many effects
– A reduction in shallow water habitat
– A colder and drier climate inland
– Changes in climate as continents moved toward and away from the poles
– Changes in ocean circulation patterns leading to global cooling
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• The break-up of Pangaea lead to allopatric speciation
• The current distribution of fossils reflects the movement of continental drift
• For example, the similarity of fossils in parts of South America and Africa is consistent with the idea that these continents were formerly attached
Consequences of Continental Drift
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Mass Extinctions
• The fossil record shows that most species that have ever lived are now extinct
• At times, the rate of extinction has increased dramatically and caused a mass extinction
• In each of the five mass extinction events, more than 50% of Earth’s species became extinct
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Consequences of Mass Extinctions
• Mass extinction can alter ecological communities and the niches available to organisms
• It can take from 5 to 100 million years for diversity to recover following a mass extinction
• Mass extinction can pave the way for adaptive radiations
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Adaptive Radiations
• Adaptive radiation is the evolution of diversely adapted species from a common ancestor upon introduction to new environmental opportunities
• Mammals underwent an adaptive radiation after the extinction of terrestrial dinosaurs
• The disappearance of dinosaurs (except birds) allowed for the expansion of mammals in diversity and size
• Other notable radiations include photosynthetic prokaryotes, large predators in the Cambrian, land plants, insects, and tetrapods
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• Major changes in body form can result from changes in the sequence and regulation of developmental genes.
• Studying genetic mechanisms of change can provide insight into large-scale evolutionary change.
• Genes that program development control the rate, timing, and spatial pattern of changes in an organism’s form as it develops into an adult.
Developmental Genes & Morphological Changes
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Changes in Rate and Timing
• Heterochrony is an evolutionary change in the rate or timing of developmental events…it can have a significant impact on body shape and thus contribute to the potential for evolutionary change:
– The contrasting shapes of human and chimpanzee skulls are the result of small changes in relative growth rates
– Heterochrony can alter the timing of reproductive development relative to the development of nonreproductive organs
– In paedomorphosis, the rate of reproductive development accelerates compared with somatic development
– The sexually mature species may retain body features that were juvenile structures in an ancestral species
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Changes in Spatial Pattern
• Substantial evolutionary change can also result from alterations in genes that control the placement and organization of body parts
• Homeotic genes determine such basic features as where wings and legs will develop on a bird or how a flower’s parts are arranged
– These are “master regulatory genes” that control organization!
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• Hox genes are a class of homeotic genes that provide positional information during development
• If Hox genes are expressed in the wrong location, body parts can be produced in the wrong location
• For example, in crustaceans, a swimming appendage can be produced instead of a feeding appendage
– Evolution of vertebrates from invertebrate animals was associated with alterations in Hox genes
– Two duplications of Hox genes have occurred in the vertebrate lineage
– These duplications may have been important in the evolution of new vertebrate characteristics
Hox Genes
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Vertebrates (with jaws)with four Hox clusters
Hypothetical earlyvertebrates (jawless)with two Hox clusters
Hypothetical vertebrateancestor (invertebrate)with a single Hox cluster
Second Hox duplication
First Hox duplication
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Evolution is NOT Goal Oriented
• Evolution is like tinkering—it is a process in which new forms arise by the slight modification of existing forms
• Most novel biological structures evolve in many stages from previously existing structures
• Complex eyes have evolved from simple photosensitive cells independently many times
• Exaptations are structures that evolve in one context but become co-opted for a different function
• Natural selection can only improve a structure in the context of its current utility