Which of these cells is believed to be the first cells on Earth?

Eukaryotic Cell

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Animal cell

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Plant cell

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Prokaryotic cell

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Solution

The correct option is D Prokaryotic cell
Eight hundred million years after the Earth first formed, the very first cells called the prokaryotic cells first appeared. The prokaryotic cells went through several changes in the next 1.5 billion years to form the Eukaryotic cells.
Hence the correct option is D.

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