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Protocells.

American biochemist Sidney Fox in 1992 showed how the first cells may have occured. Fox produced protocells by heating solutions of amino acids. A protocell is a large, ordered structure, enclosed by a membrane, that carries out some life activities, such as growth and division. The first forms of life may have been prokaryotic forms that evolved from a protocell.

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