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Raindrops may have helped kick-start life on the planet

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Scientists believe the earliest forms of life, called protocells, spontaneously emerged from organic molecules present on the early Earth .

Scientists have long wondered how nonliving matter like water, gases and mineral deposits transformed into living cells capable of replication, metabolism and evolution.

Scientists propose that two distinct models of protocells — vesicles and coacervates — may have played a pivotal role in the early stages of life.

Aman Agrawal : The absence of a membrane allowed RNA to rapidly exchange between protocells.

He says coacervates might not be able to maintain compartmentalization necessary for early life.

Rainwater , which is a natural source of ion-free water, could have done the same thing in the prebiotic world.

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