I know 'living' is sometimes hard to define but does science have any explanations?
I am supposing it was some microscopic algae or bacteria...if so, is there any fossil record of this species, or is it still in existence?
Thanks!
2007-11-06 08:33:49 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Cliff Richard!
2007-11-06 09:14:33 · answer #1 · answered by Ian M 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was a bacteria of some kind but it would be anyone's guess because a bacteria is TOO SMALL to be in the Fossil record.
2007-11-06 08:41:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean self replicating 'organisms' then mitochondrion or chloroplast like protobionts. Apparently these were later subsumed into ancient non-nucleus type bacteria to produce modern eukaryotic bacteria. The fossil evidence of ancient bacteria consists of fossil stromatolites (massive colonies containing bacterial fossils and the residues of their metabolism) dating back as early as 3.5B years.
The alternative explanation on here seems to be 'god just suddenly did it all 6,000 years ago' You choose which scenario best fits the evidence! LOfL!
2007-11-06 09:06:48 · answer #3 · answered by azteccameron1 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As you say, massively contentious topic. The most recent offering i heard was that proteins managed to develop with the primordial soup to build extremely basic living organisms. In time, according to Darwinian principles, these gradually mutated et voila here we are today.
Should this be true I doubt there would be any fossilised evidence of bacteria/protein life as the cell structure is too delicate to survive over time.
2007-11-06 08:43:04 · answer #4 · answered by Icarus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Current scientific thinking supposes that the first living organism was some sort of bacteria or archaea.
Algae and amoebae are both eukaryotic. Those absolutely would not have been the first organisms.
2007-11-06 08:42:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no fossil evidence of what it was.
The first "living" thing was probably a micelle - a small ball of fatty acids or oils with water inside. This would have contained a basic set of amino acids. That's it.
Read more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Life
2007-11-06 08:37:38 · answer #6 · answered by Brian L 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Amoeba
2007-11-06 08:40:08 · answer #7 · answered by Rick J 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ya Mum
2015-09-16 05:39:07 · answer #8 · answered by Riebie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was living bacteria in the bodies of water on land .
2007-11-06 08:37:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
single celled organisms called Amoeba
2007-11-06 08:39:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋