The Second Great Creation of life: Eubacteria. Bacteria, the only life forms present to this point, do not have the basic design that is needed for complex life. A new cell type is needed, so radically different that it amounts to a new, second, creation of life. The new creation is called the eukaryote cell, and occurred around 1.8 billion years ago. All plants and animals are made from eukaryotic cells, a word that means proper seed or proper nucleus.