On the origin of life and the possibility of development of protocells and their structural elements in apatite crystals

The paper presents in detail the author's theory about a possible simultaneous origin of organic molecules that form living systems and protocells of the pro- and eukaryotic types with participation of the apatite matrix and minerals that co-crystallizing with it. The substantiation of this theory is given. A possible mechanism is considered of the transition crystal-organomineral crystal-liquid crystal (protocell). An attempt is made to answer the principal questions in biochemistry and molecular biology about the problem of origin of life on Earth.