Life Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Metagenomic === The ability to sequence large numbers of complete [[genome]]s has allowed biologists to take a [[Metagenomics|metagenomic]] view of the [[phylogeny]] of the whole [[Tree of life (biology)|tree of life]]. This has led to the realisation that the majority of living things are bacteria, and that all have a common origin.<ref name="Woese1990"/><!--"Woese1990" is defined in {{biological systems}}--yes, I know what you think of that--><ref name="NM-20160411">{{cite journal |last1=Hug |first1=Laura A. |last2=Baker |first2=Brett J. |last3=Anantharaman |first3=Karthik |last4=Brown |first4=Christopher T. |last5=Probst |first5=Alexander J. |last6=Castelle |first6=Cindy J. |last7=Butterfield |first7=Cristina N. |last8=Hernsdorf |first8=Alex W. |last9=Amano |first9=Yuki |last10=Ise |first10=Kotaro |last11=Suzuki |first11=Yohey |last12=Dudek |first12=Natasha |last13=Relman |first13=David A. |last14=Finstad |first14=Kari M. |last15=Amundson |first15=Ronald |date=11 April 2016 |title=A new view of the tree of life |journal=[[Nature Microbiology]] |volume=1 |issue=5 |at=16048 |doi=10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.48 |pmid=27572647 |doi-access=free |last16=Thomas |first16=Brian C. |last17=Banfield |first17=Jillian F.}}</ref> <gallery class=center mode="nolines" heights="300" widths="300">File:Phylogenetic tree of life LUCA.svg|[[Phylogenetic]] tree based on [[rRNA]] [[gene]]s data (Woese ''et al.'', 1990)<ref name="Woese1990"/> showing the 3 life [[Domain (biology)|domains]], with the [[last universal common ancestor|last universal common ancestor (LUCA)]] at its root File:A Novel Representation Of The Tree Of Life.png|A 2016 [[Metagenomics|metagenomic]] representation of the [[Tree of life (biology)|tree of life]], unrooted, using [[ribosomal protein]] sequences. Bacteria are at top (left and right); [[Archaea]] at bottom; [[Eukaryote]]s in green at bottom right.<ref name="NM-20160411"/> </gallery> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page