Primordial soup
Look: Primitive cells could help confirm Mars once hosted life
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Life on Earth is made up of cells.
But there was a time, billions of years ago, where these complex molecular structures didn’t yet exist.
Some scientists hypothesize that more primitive protocells came before the cells we know today.
Made of lipids, these spherical clusters would have had a much simpler composition.
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