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Most evolutionary biologists theorize that the first living organisms were single-celled prokariotes similar to currently existing bacteria.

The distinction between proto-biotic and true life is a difficult one, so while there were self-replicating amino acid chains, the first life would have been a distinct cell that divided in an aqueous (watery) environment.
(see related link on abiogenesis)

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