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4. Living systems have a remarkable capacity for selfreplication: Generation after generation, organisms reproduce
virtually identical copies of themselves. This self-replication can
proceed by a variety of mechanisms, ranging from simple division in
bacteria to sexual reproduction in plants and animals.
Q: What is Progenate?
Ans: Progenate, is the most recent organism from which all organisms
now living on Earth descend. Thus it is the most recent common
ancestor (MRCA) of all current life on Earth. The LUA is estimated to
have lived some 3.5 to 3.8 billion years ago (sometime in the
Paleoarcheanera. The earliest evidences for life on Earth are graphite
found to be biogenic in 3.7 billion-year-old Meta sedimentary rocks
discovered in Western Greenland and microbial mat fossils found in
3.48 billion-year-old sandstone discovered in Western Australia.