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logy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form into which life was first breathed 18 but he precedes that remark by analogy would lead me one step further namely to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype but analogy may be a deceitful guide and in the subsequent edition 19 he asserts rather we do not know all the possible transitional gradations between the simplest and the most perfect organs it cannot be pretended that we know all the varied means of distribution during the long lapse of years or that we know how imperfect the geological record is grave as these several difficulties are in my judgment they do not overthrow the theory of descent from a few created forms with subsequent modification common descent was widely accepted amongst the scientific community after darwin s publication 20 in 1907 vernon kellogg commented that practically no naturalists of position and recognized attainment doubt the theory of descent 21 in 2008 biologist t ryan gregory noted that no reliable observation has ever been found to contradict the general notion of common descent it should come as no surprise then that the scientific community at large has accepted evolutionary descent as a historical reality since darwin s time and considers it among the most reliably established and fundamentally important facts in all of science 22 evidence edit further information evidence of common descent common biochemistry edit all known forms of life are based on the same fundamental biochemical organization genetic information encoded in dna transcribed into rna through the effect of protein and rna enzymes then translated into proteins by highly similar ribosomes with atp nadph and others as energy sources analysis of small sequence differences in widely shared substances such as cytochrome c further supports universal common descent 23 some 23 proteins are found in all organisms serving as enzymes carrying out core functions like dna replication the fact that only one such set of enzymes exists is convincing evidence of a single ancestry 3 24 6 331 genes common to all living animals have been identified these may have arisen from a single common ancestor that lived 650 million years ago in the precambrian 10 11 common genetic code edit further information genetic code amino acids nonpolar polar basic acidic stop codon standard genetic code 1st base 2nd base t c a g t ttt phenyl alanine tct serine tat tyrosine tgt cysteine ttc tcc tac tgc tta leucine tca taa stop tga stop ttg tcg tag stop tgg tryptophan c ctt cct proline cat histidine cgt arginine ctc ccc cac cgc cta cca caa glutamine cga ctg ccg cag cgg a att isoleucine act threonine aat asparagine agt serine atc acc aac agc ata aca aaa lysine aga arginine atg methionine acg aag agg g gtt valine gct alanine gat aspartic acid ggt glycine gtc gcc gac ggc gta gca gaa glutamic acid gga gtg gcg gag ggg the genetic code the translation table according to which dna information is translated into amino acids and hence proteins is nearly identical for all known lifeforms from bacteria and archaea to animals and plants the universality of this code is generally regarded by biologists as definitive evidence in favor of universal common descent 23 the way that codons dna triplets are mapped to amino acids seems to be strongly optimised richard egel argues that in particular the hydrophobic non polar side chains are well organised suggesting that these enabled the earliest organisms to create peptides with water repelling regions able to support the essential electron exchange redox reactions for energy transfer 25 selectively neutral similarities edit similarities which have no adaptive relevance cannot be explained by convergent evolution and therefore they provide compelling support for universal common descent such evidence has come from two areas amino acid sequences and dna sequences proteins with the same three dimensional structure need not have identical amino acid sequences any irrelevant similarity between the sequences is evidence for common descent in certain cases there are several codons dna triplets that code redundantly for the same amino acid since many species use the same codon at the same place to specify an amino acid that can be represented by more than one codon that is evidence for their sharing a recent common ancestor had the amino acid sequences come from different ancestors they would have been coded for by any of the redundant codons and since the correct amino acids would already have been in place natural selection would not have driven any change in the codons however much time was available genetic drift could change the codons but it would be extremely unlikely to make all the redundant codons in a whole sequence match exactly across multiple lineages similarly shared nucleotide sequences especially where these are apparently neutral such as the positioning of introns and pseudogenes provide strong evidence of common ancestry 26 other similarities edit biologists often quantify point to the universality of many aspects of cellular life as supportive evidence to the more compelling evidence listed above these similarities include the energy carrier adenosine triphosphate atp and the fact that all amino acids found in proteins are left handed it is however possible that these similarities resulted because of the laws of physics and chemistry rather than through universal common descent and therefore resulted in convergent evolution in contrast there is evidence for homology of the central subunits of transmembrane atpases throughout all living organisms especially how the rotating elements are bound to the membrane this supports the assumption of a luca as a cellular organism although primordial membranes may have been semipermeable and evolved later to the membranes of modern bacteria and on a second path to those of modern archaea also 27 phylogenetic trees edit a phylogenetic tree based on ribosomal rna genes implies a single origin for all life main article phylogenetic tree see also tree of life biology another important piece of evidence is from detailed phylogenetic trees i e genealogic trees of species mapping out the proposed divisions and common ancestors of all living species in 2010 douglas l theobald published a statistical analysis of available genetic data 3 mapping them to phylogenetic trees that gave strong quantitative support by a formal test for the unity of life 4 traditionally these trees have been built using morphological methods such as appearance embryology etc recently it has been possible to construct these trees using molecular data based on similarities and differences between genetic and protein sequences all these methods produce essentially similar results even though most genetic variation has no influence over external morphology that phylogenetic trees based on different types of information agree with each other is strong evidence of a real underlying common descent 28 objections edit 2005 tree of life shows many horizontal gene transfers implying multiple possible origins gene exchange clouds phylogenetic analysis edit further information horizontal gene transfer theobald noted that substantial horizontal gene transfer could have occurred during early evolution bacteria today remain capable of gene exchange between distantly related lineages this weakens the basic assumption of phylogenetic analysis that similarity of genomes implies common ancestry because sufficient gene exchange would allow lineages to share much of their genome whether or not they shared an ancestor monophyly this has led to questions about the single ancestry of life 3 however biologists consider it very unlikely that completely unrelated proto organisms could have exchanged genes as their different coding mechanisms would have resulted only in garble rather than functioning systems later however many organisms all derived from a single ancestor could readily have shared genes that all worked in the same way and it appears that they have 3 convergent evolution edit further information convergent evolution if early organisms had been driven by the same environmental conditions to evolve similar biochemistry convergently they might independently have acquired similar genetic sequences theobald s formal test was accordingly criticised by takahiro yonezawa and colleagues 29 for not including consideration of convergence they argued that theobald s test was insufficient to distinguish between the competing hypotheses theobald has defended his method against this claim arguing that his tests distinguish between phylogenetic structure and mere sequence similarity therefore theobald argued his results show that real universally conserved proteins are homologous 30 31 rna world edit main article rna world the possibility is mentioned above that all living organisms may be descended from an original single celled organism with a dna genome and that this implies a single origin for life although such a universal common ancestor may have existed such a complex entity is unlikely to have arisen spontaneously from non life and thus a cell with a dna genome cannot reasonably be regarded as the origin of life to understand the origin of life it has been proposed that dna based cellular life descended from relatively simple pre cellular self replicating rna molecules able to undergo natural selection during the course of evolution this rna world was replaced by the evolutionary emergence of the dna world a world of independently self replicating rna genomes apparently no longer exists rna viruses are dependent on host cells with dna genomes because the rna world is apparently gone it is not clear how scientific evidence could be brought to bear on the question of whether there was a single origin of life event from which all life 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