IBBiology @Skyline High School

                                                                                                                                                                     

 

Biochemical Origins (4 days)

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Assessment Statements:

Origin of Life

D.1.1

Describe four processes needed for the spontaneous origin of life on Earth.

 

D.1.2

Outline the experiments of Miller and Urey into the origin of organic compounds.

 

D.1.3

State that comets may have delivered organic compounds to Earth.

 

D.1.4

Discuss possible locations where conditions would have allowed the synthesis of organic compounds.

 

D.1.5

Outline two properties of RNA that would have allowed it to play a role in the origin of life.

 

D.1.6

State that living cells may have been preceded by protobionts, with an internal chemical environment different from their surroundings.

 

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What You Need to Know

 

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Unit Activities List:

Biochemical Origins unit plan (doc)

Origin of Life Book notes (doc)

High school text (pdf)

IB text (pdf)

College text

Answers to book notes (pdf)

Origin of life class notes (doc)

Origin of life notes presentation

Origin of Life on earth article questions (doc)

Origin of Life on earth article (pdf)

Creating coacervates lab (doc)

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Key Terms:

 

 

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Helpful Links:

Nova interview

 

 

"When we tug at a simple thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world."  John Muir