Biochemistry
The chemistry of life
How did life originate?
chaos sky sea earth Gaia Uranus Hundred handed onesCyclopesTitans … Cronus Zeus Poseidon Hades Olympians Atlas Nike Prometheus Epimetheus---- PandoraPandora Heracles
What is life ?
Complex and dynamic
Organized and self-sustaining
Information-based
Adaptable and evolving
Domain: EUCARYA – Kingdom: ANIMALIA Phylum: CHORDATA – Subphylum: VERTEBRATA » Class: MAMMALIA Order: PRIMATE Family: HOMINIDAE Genus: HOMO Species: SAPIENS
Evolution is the idea that all living things arose from a single common ancestor in the distant past and that life continues to diversify today as new species appear. Evolution explains why we can classify organisms into different groups (because some organisms are more closely related than others). Evolution explains why the cells of all organisms use the same kind of biochemical machinery (because all life shares a common ancestor). * Evolution is both a theory and a fact
“What is true of E. coli is true of the elephant” Jacques Monod
Can we create life?
1953
Abiogenesis
Can we study life?
Metabolism Anabolism Catabolism
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