Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...
Bioinformaticians have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. They describe that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important ...
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Scientists find genes that are actually older than the ancestor of all living things
Scientists call this speck LUCA — the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Since the concept of LUCA first emerged, it has ...
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All life on Earth shares an ancestor – and some of our genes predate it
The last common ancestor of all living things did not just suddenly appear on Earth roughly 4.2 billion years ago. Some of ...
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