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Lesson 11: Reading - Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus
NASA Scientists's Puzzling DIscovery
Adapted from A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus and
NASA Finds New life (Science, Wolfe-Simon et al., 2011)
It is known that all life on Earth is composed of six elements: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen,
nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur. But a team of scientists at NASA have made a surprising
and puzzling discovery in Mono Lake, California in 2011. This discovery is being called "life as
we do not know it" by NASA.
The NASA scientists thought they found a bacterium able to substitute arsenic for
phosphorus in some macromolecules, specifically-lipids, nucleic acids, and proteins. In these
macromolecules, arsenate can be found in the place of phosphate. While other elements
have been found to substitute in living things, such as other metals replacing iron as the
oxygen-carrying element in some organisms, this bacterium was thought to be the first living
thing found to have a replacement for one of the six essential elements for life.
This is not a perfect substitution. In laboratory experiments, arsenate was found in the
bacterium only when bacteria were grown in an environment lacking in phosphorus. The
arsenate ion (AsO,) is not as stable as the phosphate ion (PO), arsenic is much more toxic
than phosphate, and it is thought that some biological processes are not compatible with
arsenic-substituted molecules.
Despite the unknowns, this was still thought to be a remarkable discovery. The existence of
an organism on Earth that can substitute for one of the six essential elements would suggest
that the search for life beyond Earth may not be limited to just those six elements.
Note: This study could not be replicated after 2011, and other studies have found that there
has indeed been phosphorus in the organisms in Mono Lake, indicating that the organisms
are not including arsenic in their DNA.
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Transcribed Image Text:Copy of SAS 1-11-6 x Copy of 114 IM3 Desmos Activity of 11.4 Reading x Yo-S00BC3WZM722-CGittNfvx118hmpq4/edit 535) You Tube EdClub Math for Life Lesson 11: Reading - Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus NASA Scientists's Puzzling DIscovery Adapted from A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus and NASA Finds New life (Science, Wolfe-Simon et al., 2011) It is known that all life on Earth is composed of six elements: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur. But a team of scientists at NASA have made a surprising and puzzling discovery in Mono Lake, California in 2011. This discovery is being called "life as we do not know it" by NASA. The NASA scientists thought they found a bacterium able to substitute arsenic for phosphorus in some macromolecules, specifically-lipids, nucleic acids, and proteins. In these macromolecules, arsenate can be found in the place of phosphate. While other elements have been found to substitute in living things, such as other metals replacing iron as the oxygen-carrying element in some organisms, this bacterium was thought to be the first living thing found to have a replacement for one of the six essential elements for life. This is not a perfect substitution. In laboratory experiments, arsenate was found in the bacterium only when bacteria were grown in an environment lacking in phosphorus. The arsenate ion (AsO,) is not as stable as the phosphate ion (PO), arsenic is much more toxic than phosphate, and it is thought that some biological processes are not compatible with arsenic-substituted molecules. Despite the unknowns, this was still thought to be a remarkable discovery. The existence of an organism on Earth that can substitute for one of the six essential elements would suggest that the search for life beyond Earth may not be limited to just those six elements. Note: This study could not be replicated after 2011, and other studies have found that there has indeed been phosphorus in the organisms in Mono Lake, indicating that the organisms are not including arsenic in their DNA. Beterent
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4. What types of bonds, and how many bonds, will arsenic form with other elements?
5. How do you think the physical properties (solubility in water conductivity, beoiling & Melting
points) of arsenic trichloride (AsCl,) would compare to those of phosphorus trichloride (PCI,)?
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Underneath the article is a "Note." Be sure to read it and answer these two questions.
6. This article got a huge anmount of international attention. Why? What does it mean that
scientists "could not replicate the findings?"
7. What do the study findings suggest to us about our overall question, "How should we
search for life beyond Earth?"
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