Science News Flash: Has the Last Universal Common Ancestor Been Identified?
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Researchers from Germany made headlines by announcing that they are one step closer to identifying LUCA (the last universal common ancestor)—the single-celled organism that anchors the evolutionary tree of life. Because an organism’s genes reflect its environment, these researchers attempted to partially reconstruct LUCA’s genome.
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