Crash Course: The Origin of Life (12:57)
Key Ideas
As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.
Key Ideas
Think about the following questions as you watch the video
- 00:20 What is one of the biggest puzzles about life that we still have yet to figure out?
- 02:55 Hank talks about the definition of life at least three times. So, what is life?
- 03:33 How was Friedrich Wohler’s chemistry experiment important in the discovery of where life originated?
- 05:07 What forms of life dominated Earth for the vast majority of its existence?
- 06:19 How can oxygen be harmful and how did it change life?
- 08:03 What makes eukaryotes more complex?
- 10:16 What makes DNA such an important molecule, and where did it originate?