[Coexistence of coacervate systems of different chemical composition]

Protein--nucleic acids--carbohydrate drops stabilized at pH 6.0 by the products of oxidative enzymes (polyphenol oxidase and peroxidase) were mixed with unstabilized ones. Using light, luminescent and electron microscopic techniques, a possibility was demonstrated of co-existence of coacervate drops with different chemical composition and formation of colonies from them. Coacervate drops are considered as a primitive form of cooperation of molecules in the course of the origin of the living matter. The results obtained will be used for obtaining more complex coacervate systems by imitation of a chain of catalytic reactions.