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. 2021 Aug 25;11(9):872. doi: 10.3390/life11090872

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Pictorial representation of major events during the emergence of the three domains of life, namely, Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya. It is highly probable that both Archaea and Bacteria emerged from two resilient LUCAs based on their cell membrane compositions and biochemistries (see [50], with Eukarya being a chimera of the former two domains.) It is believed that viruses had an independent origin, probably emerging during the RNA world era.