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Diversity of Prokaryotes and Origin of Eukaryotes
Prokaryotes, Origin of Eukaryotes Compendium Review Wish List
1. Review text chapters for this section
2. Visit all web resources at bottom of this page--view articles and watch videos.
3. Be sure your compendium notebook draft covers the following topics and concepts:
PROKARYOTE DIVERSITY
Similarities, Differences between Bacteria and Archaea
What is unique about Bacteria?
What is unique about Archaea?
How are sub-groups of Bacteria, of Archaea determined?
What are those sub-groups, or current "best guess?"
Evolution of extremophily in each group
Biochemical pathways in prokaryotes
carbon fixation
autotrophy, heterotrophy
chemo-, photo-synthesis
Eukaryotes use prokaryotic pathways by endosymbiosis
Genomic Evolution
genome in flux
lateral gene transfer
EUKARYOTIC ORIGINS
Shared features of all Eukaryotes
Major Kingdomes of Eukaryotes
Endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria, chlorplasts
Eukaryote genome structure: plasmids, introns/exons, chromosome number
Cellular structure in Eukaryotes--diversity
T.P. Timeline of Life--class demo
Best Online Interactive Universe Timeline ever, from John Kyrk
Prokaryotic Diversity
from Bruce Railsback, University of Georgia
Review of Prokaryotic Diversity
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From Koonin in Nature Education
from Knoll, Andrew, Life on a Young Planet
Web Resources
History of Life and Mass Extinctions
A Brief History of Everything. Minute physics with Neil de Grasse Tyson (this is more about early cosmic history before Earth forms, but does have a few minutes on Earth at end)
Snowball Earth
Major Events in the History of Life
Endsymbiotic Origin of Eukaryotes
Lynn Marguls and Endosymbiotic Origin of Eukaryotic Organelles
More History of Life Timelines
Histography--history events shown graphically from Wikipedia all the way back to Big Bang
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