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Earth Science Module 1 - Compress
Earth Science Module 1 - Compress
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Welcome to the Earth and Life Science – 11 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on
Introduction to Life Science – Concept of Life!
This module was collaboratively designed, developed, and reviewed by educators from public
schools to assist you, the teacher or facilitator, the parents, and the learners, in helping them meet
the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum while overcoming their personal, social, and economic
constraints in schooling.
As vital partners in education, your support to your children’s learning at home is a great
factor to ensure that they will become successful in what they do. As a parent, you are expected to
monitor your child’s progress while they are accomplishing the tasks in this module, at the same time,
ensuring that they learn independently.
The objectives set for this learning material will be certainly accomplished with your steadfast
guidance and support.
For the learner:
This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent learning
activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also aims to help learners acquire the needed
21st century skills while taking into consideration their needs and circumstances.
Furthermore, it is our objective that you will have fun while going through this material. Take
charge of your learning pace and in no time, you will successfully meet the targets and objectives set
in this module which are intended for your ultimate development as a learner and as a person.
Explain the evolving concept of life based on emerging pieces of evidence (S11/12LT-IIa-1).
EARTH AND
LIFE SCIENCE Evolving Concept of Life
Q2 Lesson 1
What’s In
We exist in a universe so vast that we have only started to explore it. In the present, we only
know of one planet that is inhabited by life—Earth. But how did life come to Earth? It is implicated
that we evolved from a common ancestor that existed billion years ago, which is supported by the
similarities in terms of biochemical, genetic, and metabolic similarities among Earth’s species.
What’s New
What conditions of the ancient Earth allowed such life to start, prosper, and diversify?
Could this be possible on other planets? These are among the questions tackled by astrobiologists.
To determine the range of condition that can support life, astrobiologists observe Earth’s extreme
habitats. They have found out that some species are able to withstand extreme levels of temperature,
pH, salinity, and pressure.
Before you proceed, answer the activity below.
Activity 1: Search for Me
Directions: Search for the words related to our new lesson. Mark the words you can find in the
puzzle horizontally, vertically or diagonally).
A W F O N T C O N V E Z E L
B I O L O G Y M S H E J U K
I C S K E L A S U M M E K O
O B S R M O N O M E R H A A
G D I A S B O L E W P T R G
E G L T F E B I O L O G Y D
N Q G S T H A A W Q S R O L
E U B D U K C F L K L A T A
S R N Y O L T T E E S Y E Y
I L C O A C E R V A T E O E
S H A I E W R R U M N E C A
O S S O P R I M O R D I A L
E A R N E S A L D W T H L R
What is It
Biology is a science that deals with all forms of life, including their classification,
physiology, chemistry, and interactions. The term was introduced in Germany in 1800 and
popularized by the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck as a means of encompassing the
growing number of disciplines involved with the study of living forms.
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Theories:
Theory of Special creation, in accordance with the Book of Genesis, that every species was
individually created by God in the form in which it exists today and is not capable of
undergoing any change.
Cosmozoic Theory (Panspermia Theory) – the idea proposed by Richter in 1865 and supported
by
Arrhenius (1908). According to this theory, life has reached the planet Earth from other
heavenly bodies such as meteorites, in the form of highly resistant spores of some
microorganisms. The spores of some microorganisms are called cosmozoa or panspermia
because they are preserved inside meteorites coming to the earth from the outer space.
These meteorites struck the barren earth to release the cosmozoa and they developed into
different creatures on the earth.
Theory of Spontaneous Generation also known as Abiogenesis, the idea that life arose from
nonlife more than 3.5 billion years ago on Earth. Abiogenesis proposes that the first life-forms
generated were very simple and through a gradual process became increasingly complex.
Biogenesis Theory, life is derived from the reproduction of other life, was presumably preceded by
abiogenesis, which became impossible once Earth’s atmosphere assumed its present composition.
Coacervate theory, it is expressed by the Russian biochemist A.I. Oparin in 1936 suggesting that
the origin of life was preceded by the formation of mixed colloidal units called coacervates. These are
particles composed of two or more colloids which might be protein, lipid or nucleic acid. He proposed
that while these molecules were not living, they behaved like biological systems in the ancient seas.
They were subject to natural selection in terms of constant size and chemical properties, there was a
selective accumulation of material and they reproduced by fragmentation.
Miller-Urey hypothesis. The first hypothesis where lightning could have operated the synthesis
reactions in the Earth’s early atmosphere was tested by in 1953. It provided the first evidence that
organic molecules needed for life could be formed from inorganic components. Some scientists
support the RNA world hypothesis, which suggests that the first life was self-replicating RNA.
Fossil Evidence
Fossil evidence indicates that life on Earth appeared about 3.5 billion years ago in the oceans
Provided protection from Ultraviolet (UV) rays
Allowed multidirectional movement
Served as a medium for essential chemical reactions.
Anaerobic prokaryotes
Extraterrestrial Materials
At present, meteorites that fall to Earth are often analyzed and was found out that some
contains amino acids, sugars, and nucleotide bases. These compounds (or their precursors) have
been found in gas clouds that surrounds nearby star. Thus, the third hypothesis—that early life may
have been brought about by the extraterrestrial materials that fell on the early Earth received—was
created. This hypothesis suggests that materials from space carried with them organic monomers
that were formed from outer space.
What’s More
Activity: Know It!
Directions: IDENTIFICATION: Identify the concept asked.
Why do you think it is important to know how life started? Support your answer.
Additional Activities
What would be the implications if organisms did not evolve or adapt to their environment?
Cite 2 examples.
Answer Key
A W F O N T C O N V E Z E L
B I O L O G Y M S H E J U K
I C S K E L A S U M M E K O
O B S R M O N O M E R H A A
G D I A S B O L E W P T R G
E G L T F E B I O L O G Y D
N Q G S T H A A W Q S R O L
E U B D U K C F L K L A T A
S R N Y O L T T E E S Y E Y
I L C O A C E R V A T E O E
S H A I E W R R U M N E C A
O S S O P R I M O R D I A L
E A R N E S A L D W T H L R
WHAT’S NEW
What’s More
1. Cyanobacteria
2. Microfossils
3. Biology
4. Primordial soup theory
5. Coacervates
6. Photosynthetic organisms
7. Photosynthesis
8. Charles Darwin
9. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
10. Vital force
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