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Rabia
The Modern Indian School Of Kuwait
Of all the wonders of the universe the most fascinating are the living beings themselves. People perhaps wonder how life began on this earth.What did the first organisam look like? Where did they live and etc.We can think of various possible ways by which the life could have started on earth.Some of the possibilities are:1.Living things could have always existed on earth 2.They could have even come from another planet,but the two,do not meet the questions and the curiosity of many of the scientists. Scientists all over the world now beleive that hundreds and million of years ago when earth was a hot molten ball,life was never possible on the planet.Slowly and gradually the earth cooled and as it cooled there were continious rains,which washed the hot surface of the earth and the water collected in lakes and oceans.The atmosphere at that time was extremly different.Some of the scientists admit that there was no oxygen.The sea was a boiling mass consisting of water ,minerals, gases etc.There were violent storms accomp- lished by lightning.The temprature at that time was very high,it was then,under such conditions that the first living substance called the PROTOPLAM was formed.This protoplasm,in course of time,formed a membrane around itself and the first living CELL appeared in sea. These minute single celled organisams derived their food from the chemicals present in the sea.As these chemicals began to parish,these organisams started making their own food with the help of a pigment called CHLOROPHYLL,or- ganisams which could not make their own food started eating these organisams.These cells later developed into higher animals and the green cell into higher plants.The green plants migrated to the land followed by other organi- sams for food.This is how life started from the sea and came to land afterwards. From about five billion years ago till today, life has been present on this earth and will continue with the genarations to come |