BIOS10115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cloning, Carl Woese, Boiling Point
19 Oct 2016
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Evolutionary relationships between human beings and microbes. Why did scientist go to one of the hottest . Hoping to locate the modern microbes most closely related to the first life on earth. Steaming hot with oceans that reached the boiling point. To get more dna the microbes must reproduce in the lab. Nop, only some have successfully been grown in labs. Evolution of the first forms of life: microbes. Had a special chain of genetic material. Cut special chains small enough to manage. Tried to figure out order of chain. Special chain could reveal how life on earth evolved. Many of them are doing stuff essential to the survival of life on earth. Maintain the chemistry of the biosphere (chemistry is driven by microorganisms) If you take it away and all the life is going to disappear in short order. There will be big adjustments in the microbial world. Microbes: only form of life on earth all day.
