Lesson: Domains & Kingdoms
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#content #criticalthinking #community #collaboration #communication #creativity
Warm Ups, etc:
Stromatolites
Origins of Life
Lecture Notes: #content
Summarize hypotheses of early life
Miller & Urey - chemical and electric atmosphere (constructed a lab apparatus, but probably not totally accurate)
Hydrothermal origins - areas of volcanic activity and chemically rich water --> archaebacteria
Meteorite hypothesis - seeds of life from outer space (evidence of organic molecules in meteorites and from analysis of other planets)
Liposome hypotheses - lipid particles formed membranes which separated nucleic acids and proteins from environment
The 3 Domain/6 Kingdom systems
Objectives and Vocabulary: #content
BIO.4 The student will investigate and understand life functions of Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya. Key concepts include
a) comparison of their metabolic activities;
b) maintenance of homeostasis;
c) how the structures and functions vary among and within the Eukarya kingdoms of protists, fungi, plants, and animals, including humans;
Domain
Archaea
Eubacteria
Eukarya
Protista
Fungi
Plantae
Animalia
Heterotroph
Consumer
Decomposer
Autotroph
Producer
Photosynthetic
Chemosynthetic
Activities, Assignments, Etc.
Origins of Life -Spontaneous generation & Biogenesis - <summarize Redi, Spallanzani and Pasteur's basic experiments (SOL1) that showed that life can not appear spontaneously>
Extension Activity: “In the Beginning…” - read the Economist article and submit answers
Two important papers were published in 1953. What were the titles and authors of these articles?
Describe the experiment and results that simulated Darwin’s “warm little pond.”
What three questions do we still have about the origin of life?
Summarize each of the “above, below, or beyond” of Dr. Bernstein and Dr. Thaddeus.
The third to last paragraph ends with the question “How, then, did life survive the constant rain of asteroids?” Summarize Dr. Cockell’s findings.