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The document outlines the evolution of Earth and life, categorizing organisms into domains and kingdoms, including Archaea, Bacteria, Protists, Fungi, Plants, and Animals. It highlights the characteristics of each group, such as the extreme environments of Archaea and the photosynthetic abilities of plants. Additionally, it provides resources for further reading and an interactive game on biodiversity.

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Mod 05 Lec 24

The document outlines the evolution of Earth and life, categorizing organisms into domains and kingdoms, including Archaea, Bacteria, Protists, Fungi, Plants, and Animals. It highlights the characteristics of each group, such as the extreme environments of Archaea and the photosynthetic abilities of plants. Additionally, it provides resources for further reading and an interactive game on biodiversity.

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Evolution of the

Earth and life

Devapriya Chattopadhyay
Domain Tree of life
Plants Animals
Kingdom
Fungi

Phylum

Class
Protists

Order
Modern
cellular
structure
Family

Genus Primitive
Archaea Bacteria cellular
structure
Species
Archaea & Bacteria

-Prokaryotes: Primitive cell structure

Archaea:

-Adopted for extreme environment.


-Very high temperatures (hot springs)
- Little or no oxygen
- Acidic conditions

geologypics.com

Bacteria:
- Some could generate their food by
photosynthesis.

Source: Earth system history


Protists
- It could have either primitive or modern cell structure.
- Very small
- Structure made of minerals (calcite, silica etc)

Source: Earth system history


Fungi

• Decomposers
• Obtains nutrients from dead organisms
• Does not require sunlight
Plants

• Photosynthesizers: produces their own food

• Seedless plants Seeded plants


Animals

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Sponges
Cnidarians
Worms
Lophophores
Mollasks
Arthropods
Echinoderms
Chordates
Source: Earth system history
Animal Kingdom
Phyllum: Sponge

Phyllum: Cnidarians

Source: Earth system history


Animal Kingdom
Phyllum: Segmented worms Phyllum: Lophophores

Brachiopod / lamp shell

Bryozoans / moss animal


Source: Earth system history
Animal Kingdom
Phyllum: Mollusks Phyllum: Arthropods

Source: Earth system history


Animal Kingdom
Phyllum: Echinoderms Phyllum: Chordates

Source: Earth system history


An example

A game on biodiversity:
https://biomanbio.com/HTML5GamesandLabs/EcoGames/succession_interactive.html
Resources

Books and other printed media


• Earth: An introduction to physical geology (9th Ed), by Tarbuck & Lutgens
• Dynamic Earth: An introduction to physical geology (5th Ed), by Skinner, Porter, Park
• Understanding Earth (6th Ed), by Grotzinger & Jordan
• Earth system history (3rd Ed), by Stanley
• The story of Earth by Robert M. Hazen
• A number of peer-reviewed articles

Photo courtesy:
Wikimedia (Creative and common license)
Marli Miller (geologypics.com)
Google Earth
Google map

Online resources
https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/SupportingMaterials
https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/Education_Careers/k12/GSA/edu-career/k12/resources.aspx
If you have a chicken salad with spinach and mushroom
for lunch, how many kingdoms did you taste?

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