INTRODUCTION TO

LIFE SCIENCE

JA ESTIPONA
WHAT IS
LIFE?
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The characteristics/ properties of life
are the following:
a.High degree of organization
b.Evolutionary adaptation/ evolution
and adaptation
c.Regulation and Homeostasis
d.Energy Processing/ Acquisition
and use of energy
e. Growth and Development
f. Response to the
environment/ Ability to
respond to stimuli
g. Reproduction
h. Diversity and Unity
THEORIES ON
THE ORIGINS
OF LIFE
 THEORY OF SPECIAL
CREATION
The greatest supporter of this theory
was Father Suarez. According to this
theory life was created by
supernatural power. According to the
Bible the world was created within six
days.
 COSMOZOIC THEORY
With the commonality of these large
meteor strikes, scientists have
hypothesized that some of the
meteors that struck the Earth may
have been carrying very primitive
cells, or at least the building blocks
of life.
 THEORY OF SPONTANEOUS
GENERATION
the hypothetical process by which living organisms
develop from nonliving matter; also, the archaic theory
that utilized this process to explain the origin of life.
According to that theory, pieces
of cheese and bread wrapped in rags and left in a dark
corner, for example, were thus thought to
produce mice, because after several weeks there were
mice in the rags. Many believed in spontaneous
generation because it explained such occurrences as
the appearance of maggots on decaying meat.
 BIOGENESIS
any process by which lifeforms produce other
lifeforms. For example, a spider lays eggs that become
other spiders. This premise historically contrasted
with the ancient belief in spontaneous generation,
which held that certain inorganic substances, left
alone, give rise to life (such as bacteria, mice and
maggots) in a matter of days. The premise of
biogenesis had been suspected long before being
definitively demonstrated. A demonstrative
experiment, which showed biogenesis right down to
the bacterial level, was devised by Louis Pasteur in
1859.
 OPARIN-HALDANE’S THEORY
• According to their theory, life evolved in the
oceans during a period when the atmosphere was
reducing - containing H2, H2O, NH3, CH4, and CO2,
but no free O2.
• Organic compounds were synthesized
nonbiologically by ultraviolet light energy, which in
the absence of an ozone shield would penetrate
the upper layers of the ocean.