The Correlation Between Human Being and the Earth

 The gist is that before you were, there was. The imaginations that follow the science research have a way of dangling with the mind of humans. Did you know? There is a particular organism that is believed to have a circular relationship between every living being on the planet earth today. It is the wonderful, "Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) can also be called as the "Last Universal Ancestor (LUA). This is the most recent population of organisms which scientists and researchers believe that all organisms now living on Earth have a common descent. Life is currently divided into six kingdoms: animals, protists, plants, fungi, eubacteria, and archaebacteria. The first four categories belong to the domain known as eukaryotes, meaning sporting cells with distinct nuclei. Eubacteria and archaebacteria are both single-celled organisms without a distinct nucleus. But all of them evolved to have a descendant relationship from a single-celled ancestor that was believed to have lived about 4 billion years ago when Earth was a celestial baby.

DNA analysis provided the opportunity for researchers to effect changes in the tree of life in an incredibly detailed manner. Which always has a question mark at the base. The question had been who started it all? But they came up with a pretty good description to satisfy this need, which is LUCA, of all of Earth's creatures, also referred to as microbial Eve. Based on the time of LUCA's existence on the planet, it may have lived in the really inhospitable environs like underwater and even the volcanos.

There was a study published in Nature Microbiology, stated that LUCA is no less than 4 billion years old, possibly had the worst environmental experience due to their moving tectonic plates and was also a single-cell organism.

William Martin of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf led a team of scientists to investigate all clusters and genetic evolutionary trees of 6.1 million genes. They conducted the following studies while trying to get a clear description of LUCA. The team was able to identify 355 genes that trace to the last ancestor by phylogenetic criteria.

The origin of the idea about LUCA was birthed when researcher of Martin's group was giving a 20-minute summary of a Masters thesis in bioinformatics.

According to Martin, "The genomes have traces of life's earliest history in an exciting prospect. This makes it even more exciting and probably impossible to decipher some of the found traces of history."

LUCA lived in a "geochemically active environment," meaning volcanically active places or areas that tectonic plates are moving apart, hotspots and ocean basins that are rich in carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and iron. Even though there was no available oxygen, but this common ancestor probably obtained energy from hydrogen gas as discovered in the gene. The retained genes tell an amazing story about the environment in where LUCA lived which include how it extracted energy to survive and thrive. The genes are same with extremophile organism that lived in an area where magma and seawater meet on the ocean floor, called "hydrothermal vents." Similar creatures like the LUCA still haunt these environments among the toxic plumes of metals and sulfides.