The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is the hypothesized common ancestral cell from which the three domains of life, the Bacteria, the Archaea, and...

The first universal common ancestor (FUCA) is a proposed non-cellular entity that is the earliest ancestor of the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) and...

biology and genetic genealogy, the most recent common ancestor (MRCA), also known as the last common ancestor (LCA), of a set of organisms is the most recent...

descendants of a unique ancestor commonly referred to as the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) of all life on Earth. Common descent is an effect of...

on Earth once it had cooled enough for oceans to form. The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) was an organism which had ribosomes and the genetic code;...

the Last Universal Common Ancestor of all extant life. This is a serious error resulting from failure to recognize that L refers to the last common ancestor...

genomes of a set of bacteria and archaea suggested that the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) of all cells was using an ancient Wood–Ljungdahl pathway...

being the last universal common ancestor, there were populations of organisms exchanging genes by lateral gene transfer. The Proterozoic eon lasted from 2...

precursor molecules necessary for self-replication. While the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is thought to have been quite different from the origin...

the Last Universal Common Ancestor of all extant life. This is a serious error resulting from failure to recognize that L refers to the last common ancestor...