OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
BIOCHEMISTRY
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The first cells are thought to have been an accumulation of organic molecules. Called protobionts, these first cells contained all of the following capabilities, except
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Metabolism
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Separation from the outer environment
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Replication
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Photosynthesis
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The first cells were most likely primitive prokaryotic-like cells, even more simplistic than these E. coli bacteria. The first cells were probably no more than organic compounds, such as a simplistic RNA, surrounded by a membrane.
Detailed explanation-2: -The protobionts are also known as prebiotic structures. Protobionts were aggregated abiotic molecules surrounded by a membrane, they were formed as unstable monomers became stable polymers.
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