Earth

4, Mulet, Friedman, Lopez, History of Earth Timeline

  • (5 BYA)

    Solar sytems is swirling mass of Gas and Dust.
  • (4.6 BYA)

    Planets form through repeated collisitions with space debri.
  • (4 BYA)

    Half of carbon 14 in a sample would have decayed.
    Organic molecules (methanricna baruic) begin to accumulate.
    Earths Age
  • (3.5 BYA)

    Lynbgya & Stromolites form
  • (3 BYA)

    Photosynthetic activity begins.
  • (2.2 BYA)

    Earth looked much like it does today.
  • (2 BYA)

    Oxygen levels reach todays levels.
  • (1.5 BYA)

    A type of small aerobic prokaryote was engulfed by & began to live & reproduce inside of a larger anerobic prokaryote.
  • (1 BYA)

    Ozone formed and protected organism from harmful UV rays so they could exist on land.
  • (1600-1700)

    Redi's Experiments - Showed that life comes from other living oprganism. Experiment: Fly & Meat
    1665 - First Light Microsocpe, used obtical lens to magnifiy object by bending light rays
    Robert Hooke was the inventor.
  • (1900-present)

    Sidney Fox - Research on physical structure has given rise to the first cells.
    Thomas Cech - Found types of RNA that is able to act as a chemical catalyst, similar to the way an enzymes.
    Lynn Marguis - She proposed that cells early prokaryotic may have been developed mutially beneficial relationship.
    1950's - Radio Active Dating is used, which recalls the atomic number of the element, helps to see how old an object is due to radio active decay
  • (1700-1800)

    Spallanazani's Experiment - microrganims wouldn't grow in broth when it's container was heated & then sealed. Microrganism do not arise spontaneously, they are carried through the air.
    Experiment: Broth in Flask, one sealed right away, the other left open.
    People still did not agree.
  • (1800-1900)

    Urey & Miller - Experiment has produced a variety of organic compunds & amino acids
    Opann's hypothesis - Chemical reactions fueled by energy from lightnight and ultraviolet radiation would result in the macromolecules essential to life(proteins)
    Pasture's Experiment - He curved the neck of a flask and broth stayed clear, when he broke the neck it became cloudy.