Biology
Fundamentally toxic to bacteria and others in an anaerobic world
What is Oxygen?
The result of stringing together amino acids
This sits in Victoria Bennett's office in the Earth Sciences building of the Australian National University in Canberra.
What is a fossil of the Dawn of Life?
Theory about how life began posed by Lord Kelvin in 1871.
What is panspermia (the germs of life might have been brought to the earth by some meteorite)?
The building blocks of life
What are Proteins?
The number of amino acids naturally occuring on Earth.
What is 22?
This machine measures the decay of Uranium in tiny minerals called Zircons
What is SHRIMP?
Proof of Lord Kelvin's 1891 Theory
What is Carbonaceous chondrites have been found (meteorites that have organic compounds throughout them)?
Undoubtedly the most important single metabolic innovation in the history of life on the planet
What is Photosynthesis
In this pair one can't exist without the other, and the other has no purpose without the first.
What are DNA, and Proteins?
The currently accepted date of when life on earth began.
When was 3.85 billion years ago?
It only happened once, and because of that everything that is alive, is alive.
What is the moment of creation, or the Big Birth.
A "whiz" at replicating
What is DNA?
Sugars constantly assemble to form this molecule.
What is Starches?
The currently accepted date that the earth became solid.
When was 3.9 Billion Years ago?
Fred Hoyle's Theory for why our nostrils are on the bottom of our nose.
What is So cosmic pathogens do not drift into them from space?
These organisms created photosynthesis
What are Bacteria?
A 1,055 sequence molecule
What is collagen?
The oldest thing ever found by SHRIMP
What is a 4.3 Billion year old Rock?
In 1953, this student took two flasks, one representing the early ocean, one representing the early atmosphere, and added electrical spark to stand in for lightning.
Who is Stanley Miller?