{"id":412,"date":"2023-11-23T02:11:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T02:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cellandcelldivision.com\/?p=412"},"modified":"2023-11-23T05:07:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T05:07:53","slug":"page-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cellandcelldivision.com\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"Page 47"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tracing Life on the Earth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Section 1.7.<\/strong> The hypothesis of the earth origin of life seems more<br>plausible. The reasons for that conclusion are quite a few.<br>Three of them are however most worth mentioning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A combination of favourable factors such as temperature, primeval<br>atmosphere, availability of water in a liquid state, optimal solar<br>radiation, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Evolution of metabolism in direct dependence on the development<br>of lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere of the Earth with a<br>strongly expressed demarcation line between the anaerobic and<br>aerobic ways of existence of the living organisms marked by the<br>absence and later presence of molecular oxygen (O\u2082).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Traces left by the living organisms in earth layers.<br>A satisfactory scientific hypothesis of the origin, formation and<br>development of our planet and the living systems emerged on it has been<br>created on the basis of numerous studies in the different fields of science. The<br>age of Earth is defined to 5\u20146 billions of years. Biochemical evolution has<br>started after the formation of the earth mantle i.e. about 4.5 billion years ago,<br>the prerequisites for its emergence being prepared at the still earlier space<br>stage of chemical evolution. The remains of the most ancient known and<br>preserved fossils of life forms are dated back to 3.5\u20143.8 billion years which<br>indicates that for the formation of the first cell structures about 1 billion years<br>and according to some authors even more, have been necessary.<br>The chronology of the individual stages of the historical development of<br>the Earth is given in Table 4. Supplementing it, Ernst (1983) divide the<br>Archean Era (4.55\u20142.5 bln. years) into three main periods: Hadean,<br>encompassing the initial period after the formation of the Earth (4.55\u20143.9 bln.<br>years); Early Archean (3.9\u20142.9 bln. years) and Late Archean (2.9\u20142.5 bln.years).<br><br>The road, which the researchers must follow in the search of life is<br>difficult. But the endeavour has already been undertaken and without any<br>doubt it will be brought to an end and sufficiently resolved. Two are the<br>main obstacles for the elucidation of that problem.<br><br><strong>First.<\/strong> The strong metamorphism of rock formations and sediments<br>which has to a great extent wiped out the traces of the primary living<br>systems that have existed prior to the formation of cell organisms.<br><br><strong>Second.<\/strong> The impossibility to differentiate abiogenic organic matter<br>from the biogenic one. This also hampers exobiologists in finding<br>convincing proofs of the extraterrestrial origin of biomatter.<br>The earliest imprints of living organisms (fossils) are the reported findings<br>from the Isua Formation (West Greenland) aged approximately 3.8 bln. years<br>(see Table 5). The authors themselves (Pflug, 1978; Pflug, Jaeschke-Boyer,<br>1979) have expressed doubts that the Isuasfera named by them are<br>organisms resembling modern yeasts. The same doubts were expressed by<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracing Life on the Earth Section 1.7. The hypothesis of the earth origin of life seems moreplausible. 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