Efforts to define the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) currently estimate 80–500 genes are shared by all known species. The lower value of 80 was estimated by determining the number of:

A. mRNAs species produced in LUCA.
B. genes coded by LUCA genome.
C. genes in simplest bacterial species.
D. clearly identifiable orthologs in all organisms.
E. genes required for processes that are found in all organisms.


D

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