The trend is from the known simplest lifeforms to the most complex all of them can and do die regularly with their parts intact, meaning that something else aside from parts is required, and to say that the earliest life form only required parts to be alive, if it existed, would be going against this universal trend that despite having parts all organism do die, showing that parts are not all that is needed.
can you spell circular, children?
What makes a bacteria die, despite having all the correct "parts"? Can you show that they do?