After reading this chapter and analyzing the content, it is assumed that you can: - Describe the properties of water that make if invaluable to life as we know it.
- Explain why the versatility of carbon is essential to life.
- Describe the structure and biological function of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids; give examples of each.
- Describe the four different types of protein configurations and give examples of each.
- Explain what the Miller–Urey experiments contributed to modern theories of the origin of life.
- List the three different energy sources that could have powered the creation of organic molecules early in Earth's history.
- Define primary and secondary heterotrophs and autotrophs.
- Distinguish between prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
- Describe the Margulis proposal of the origin of eukaryotes from prokaryotes.
- Explain the endosymbiotic theory.
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