LUCA

  1. (acronym|lang=en) .  (taxonomy, biology) Last universal common ancestor; the hypothesised most recent primordial organism that is an ancestor to all organisms now living.
  2. Proper noun.  (given name, male) borrowed from (etyl, it) in the 2000s.

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