Key term for AQA GCSE Biology, used in History of Genetics.
The most recent ancestral group from which multiple descendant species evolved, represented by a junction on an evolutionary tree.
Most recent common ancestor (MRCA) appears in AQA GCSE Biology revision content for Genetics and Evolution, especially History of Genetics and Fossils.
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