PowerPoint Slides for Chapter 6:Evolution at the Molecular Level

byA. Malcolm Campbell, Laurie J. Heyer, and

Chris Paradise

6.1 What is evolution? 6.2 Could abiotic molecules produce the first cells?

Title Page

Integrating Concepts in Biology

Opening Figure

Fossil Evidence of Early Life

Natural Selection Example

Fig. 6.1

Four Mechanisms of Evolution

Fig. 6.2

a)

b)

c)

d)

e)

ELSI Figure 6.1

Political Satire of Darwin

6.2 Could abiotic molecules produce the first cells?

Skeletal Muscle Cell

Fig. 6.3

Biological Building Blocks

Fig. 6.4

Miller’s Primitive Earth Experiment

Fig. 6.5

Thin Layer Chromatography

Fig. 1.19

Lipid Vesicles

Fig. 6.6

Ribozyme from Tetrahymena

Fig. 6.7

Functional Ribozyme

Fig. 6.8

Directed Evolution of Ribozyme

Fig. 6.9

Self-splicing Ribozyme

Fig. 6.10

PowerPoint Slides for Chapter 6:Evolution at the Molecular Level

byA. Malcolm Campbell, Laurie J. Heyer, and

Chris Paradise

6.3 Can non-living objects compete and grow?

Title Page

Integrating Concepts in Biology

Abiotic Vesicle Formation

Fig. 6.11

Fig. 6.12

Are Abiotic Vesicles Empty?

Fig. 6.13

Dynamic Vesicle Sizes

IQ #13

Dynamic Vesicle Sizes

Fig. 6.14

Abiotic Competition for Lipids

Fig. 6.15

RNA Induces Vesicle Growth

BME 6.4

BME 6.2

y = ae-kt + b

BME 6.2

y = ae-kt + b

a = 0 is flat; = 1 is fast drop

b = 0 shifts down; = 1 shifts up

k = 0 is flat; = 5 is fast dropk is rate of change in vesicle size

BME 6.2

PowerPoint Slides for Chapter 6:Evolution at the Molecular Level

byA. Malcolm Campbell, Laurie J. Heyer, and

Chris Paradise

6.4 Can non-living objects harvest and store energy?6.5 How did the first nucleus come into being?

Title Page

Integrating Concepts in Biology

Fig. 6.16

Model of pH Gradient Production

Fig. 6.17

Vesicle Accumulates H+ Ionsa)

c)

b)

6.5 How did the first nucleus come into being?

Fig. 6.18

Darwin’s Original Tree of Life

Fig. 6.19

Prokaryotic Internal Membranes

hypothetical sequences

DNA Sequences

Fig. 6.20

Simplistic Evolutionary Tree

Fig. 6.21

Domain Level Evolutionary Tree

IQ 22

Integrating Question #22

Fig. UN 6.2

BLASTp Results

Fig. 6.22

Fuse Genomes Model

Fig. 6.23

Eukaryote Composite Genome