What is the first form of life?

Coacervate is a mixture of different biomolecules of primitive seawater as an organized colloidal system which could absorb nutrient and can replicate like a simple living creature.

According to Oparine's concept, origin of life in the beginning is due to the biochemical process occurred in the primitive sea water. The simplest organic compound such as amino acid, nucleic acid were formed first and later in the presence of energy these compounds reacted vigorously to give rise to the first form of life. Then slowly evolved into distinct prokaryotes, eukaryotes and higher organism.

Life was originated on primitive sea water of earth under following peculiar conditions:

• Reducing type atmosphere,
• High heat energy due to the recently formed earth and frequent volcanic eruption,
• High intensity of light due to Frequent lightening,
• Presence of UV rays as the ozone layer was not developed

There are several classical hypothesis to explain the origin of life on earth. It is believed that the earth was formed as a broken piece of sun, which later developed into solid earth a long long time back. Some people also believes that the earth is formed as a result of combination of gases and other cosmic particles due to gravitational force between them at about 4.5 to 5 billion years ago.

In the beginning, the primitive seawater was quite hot and full of simple organic compound like amino acids, nitrogen bases, simple sugar etc. which is named as primordial soup.

Russian biochemist A.I. Oparin and an English biologist J.B.S. Haldane gave the widely accepted theory on origin of life.

[Theory of Biochemical origin of Life or Modern Theory on Origin of Life or Oparine-Haldane theory all are same]