Life

If life all began with a single cell, then the first cell would have to have been fully functional. If a string of amino acids did happen to come together, was the function to replicate intrinsic? The idea of replication is a feed forward process. The first cell/protein would also have to have the ability to acquire external raw material, sugar for energy and protein as building blocks, to replicate. Replication requires DNA, so DNA, RNA, and all the supporting proteins to carry out replication and bring raw materials into the cell would have been a part of the first cell. This seems to be getting a bit complicated for random molecules coming together by chance.

How about the idea of chromosome formation? So, let's say the first cell did somehow have DNA and could replicate itself. Chromosomes are bunched up DNA. How then does a new chromosome form? Humans have 46 of chromosomes, pigs 38, and monkeys have 48. So if we came from monkeys, where did the other two chromosomes go to? Assuming the first cell had one chromosome, how many base pairs did it have? In humans the chromosome with the fewest base pairs is just over 46,000 base pairs. I know simple cells without a nucleus can have around 10,000 base pairs. How many did the first cell have? Even though errors in each chromosome occurs, how does the formation of a new chromosome occur? Cell 1 has it's one chromosome, where does chromosome two arise, and how does that happen?