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The Evolution of Life
Since "animals" are defined as heterotrophs, and cannot create their own food, it is likely that plants were the first living things. They also provided the oxygen necessary for the current regime of carbon-based life.
The Creationist View (plants also first)
Genesis 1
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning-the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning-the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning-the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights-the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning-the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning-the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoThe evidence is still sketchy as to which came first. Currently, it is presumed that complex marine animals appeared during the Cambrian Explosion event. Primitive animals were around 610 mya (million years ago), but there are fossils of complex modern plants on land as early as 470 mya. In 2011, fossil evidence of complex life --neither plants nor animals-- in shallow water was found at 1000 mya. Speculatively, land plants may have evolved from those organisms. Also in 2011, something like seaweed was found at c. 630-600 mya, which could be before the first animals, though seaweed is not truly a plant. So, currently the evidence says animals before (vascular) plants.
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∙ 12y agoActually, neither. The first organisms where prehistoric organisms unlike todays plants and animals. However, of the plants and animals, 'animal like' creatures actually came first! These creatures consumed other smaller organisms that in turn got there energy directly from chemicals. Once these 'animals' started to eat other organisms this gave rise to the eukaryote (true celled) organisms which contain mitochondria and/or chloroplasts (animals or plants).
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∙ 14y agoI think its plant cell because of its fixed shape and by researching from other websites!
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∙ 12y agoPlants make their own food from the sun (photosynthisis) but animals wouldn't have had anything to eat if they existed first.
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∙ 8y agoThe first living things were producers but they may not have been photosynthetic producers.
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∙ 13y agoKneegrow cells
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∙ 14y agoplants
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∙ 13y agoFOOT.
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What is the first animals and plants at the start of the earth?
There were no animals or plants at the start of the earth. Cyanobacteria maybe
Which lived on land first plants or animals?
plants so the animals can have oxygen
When did the first land plants and animals appear in the fossil record?
The first plants with spores, which indicates that they were land plants, appeared in the Middle Ordovician period, about 470 million years ago. First records of tetrapods, or land animals, show up in the fossil record around 370 million years ago.
What was the first group of animals to have an anus?
The first animals on Earth.
What was the first thing that Charels Darwin noticed that amazed him?
The diversity of the animals and plants he saw .
What is the first animals and plants at the start of the earth?
There were no animals or plants at the start of the earth. Cyanobacteria maybe
Would plants or animals have been the first forms of life on earth?
Unicellular plants and animals were first forms of life on Earth
When did the first marine plants appear on earth?
the first plants appeared about 3000 years ago. the first plant was algae.
When did plants start to grow?
The first plants appeared on earth over 400 million years ago. One of the earliest plants was cooksonia, which did not have leaves or flowers !
Who appeared on the earth first?
Who appeared on the earth first
Which lived on land first plants or animals?
plants so the animals can have oxygen
What came first in the development of species Animals or plants?
Plants were first.
When did the first land plants and animals appear in the fossil record?
The first plants with spores, which indicates that they were land plants, appeared in the Middle Ordovician period, about 470 million years ago. First records of tetrapods, or land animals, show up in the fossil record around 370 million years ago.
Which do you think lived first--plants or animals?
plants
Which was the first animal on the earth to have food?
The animal that first evolved, I guess. But no one knows what that was (because it lived millions and billions of years ago) or if there was an animal that evolved before all other animals. It would have eaten plants though because plants are plants, not animals and they use photosynthesis to survive.
When did centipedes first walk the earth?
Centipedes appeared around 420 million years ago, they are one of the first terrestrial animals.
Is it true that the first mammals appeared on Earth at about the same time as the first terrestrial plants?
No. The first land plants were on the planet 0.475 billion years ago. The first mammals were on the planet around 160 million years.
