Carl Woese has controversially proposed that all three domains of life evolved from a(n) ________

A) single last unique common ancestor (LUCA)
B) extremophilic archaean
C) fusion of a bacterium with an archaean
D) universal gene-exchange pool
E) very large virus


D

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