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by posterboy 2006 days ago
> and have a boundary from the environment

This is not self evident. Maybe this is the news?

I am not sure, what are you saying?

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Not the person you're replying to, but: That the processes inside the boundary and those outside the boundary only interact through relatively narrow-bandwidth channels across that boundary, and that it maintains the high level of internal organization, the boundary, and the input/output channels through self-sustaining internal processes.
The fact that bacteria and archea have a chemically different cell membrane strongly suggest that it evolved twice, and therefore their original ancestor didn't have one at all.
Its part of the standard definition of life:

> organisms are open systems that maintain homeostasis, are composed of cells...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life

Cell by definition have a boundary called the cell membrane.

>Cells consist of cytoplasm enclosed within a membrane...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(biology)