progenote (English, noun)
expansion: progenote (plural progenotes)
Senses:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: Any (hypothesised) primordial organism in which the relationship between genotype and phenotype was still evolving.
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: The most recent common ancestor to all organisms now living on Earth; LUCA; specifically, the most recent progenitor of all archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes.
tags: broadly
Forms:
form: progenotes
tags: plural