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    The document summarizes key points about the origin of life on Earth. It discusses that the early atmosphere was formed from volcanic gases and consisted mostly of carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrogen and other gases. Miller and Urey's experiments showed that amino acids could form from simple molecules like methane and ammonia when exposed to energy like lightning. The Endosymbiotic Theory explains how eukaryotic cells evolved from prokaryotic cells through symbiotic relationships, with organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts originating from once free-living bacteria.

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    The document summarizes key points about the origin of life on Earth. It discusses that the early atmosphere was formed from volcanic gases and consisted mostly of carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrogen and other gases. Miller and Urey's experiments showed that amino acids could form from simple molecules like methane and ammonia when exposed to energy like lightning. The Endosymbiotic Theory explains how eukaryotic cells evolved from prokaryotic cells through symbiotic relationships, with organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts originating from once free-living bacteria.

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    The document summarizes key points about the origin of life on Earth. It discusses that the early atmosphere was formed from volcanic gases and consisted mostly of carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrogen and other gases. Miller and Urey's experiments showed that amino acids could form from simple molecules like methane and ammonia when exposed to energy like lightning. The Endosymbiotic Theory explains how eukaryotic cells evolved from prokaryotic cells through symbiotic relationships, with organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts originating from once free-living bacteria.

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    ASSIGNMENT 1: ORIGIN OF LIFE

    NAME: Tiad, Frenzy Gayle D.


    SECTION: 28EF

    1) What substances made up Earth’s early atmosphere?


    The Earth’s early atmosphere was formed from the gases that the volcanoes emitted. It
    is believed that many volcanic eruption was made in the first billion years of the Earth since it
    existed. The Earth’s atmosphere is composed of substances mostly carbon dioxide, a little bit of
    oxygen or no oxygen, water, water vapor, nitrogen, ammonia, methane, hydrogen sulfide,
    nitrogen oxides and hydrogen. The Earth was too hot so the water evaporate and it turned into
    water vapor and stays in the atmosphere and as the Earth cooled down the water vapor
    condensed and it turned into oceans.

    2) What did Miller and Urey’s experiments show?


    The Miller and Urey’s experiment shows the possibility of the existence of life through
    chemistry,they constructed a close system with water reservoir for water sampling ports, a
    chamber for input of electrical energy and a condenser to convert the water vapor back into
    liquid, the researchers added water, hydrogen gas, methane, carbon dioxide, ammonia and
    nitrogen the water was heated to form a vapor and electrical sparks was used to mimic lightning
    through their experiment as their ocean turned brownish black in just one week they conduct
    an analysis and found out that through a series of reaction occur many complex molecules
    emerged from it including amino acids a special molecule of life that people thought it could
    only be built inside the body and on other living creatures. The experiment is also the ticket to
    simulate Earth’s early conditions, it took the speculations that life might arise from chemistry
    and transform that part of speculation into legitimate science.

    3) What does the Endosymbiotic Theory explain?


    Enodsymbiotic theory explains how more than one organism live together one inside the
    other. The theory also explains how eukaryotic cells evolve from prokaryotic cells, the theory
    suggest that the main organelles of eukaryotic cell is from the ancient prokaryotic cell that has
    been engulfed by larger prokaryotic cell but instead of digesting it, it remained intact with the
    prokaryotic cell. Some bacteria engulfed by the prokaryotic cell uses oxygen to produce energy
    and some bacteria can do photosynthesis as the bacteria provides energy for the prokaryotic
    cell the prokaryotic cell on the other hand provides them their safety. The bacteria that uses
    oxygen to produce to their own energy evolved into mitochondria and the bacteria that uses
    sunlight to produce their own food evolved into chloroplast.

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