根据从卡尔·沃斯 Carl Woese 开始的一些分子研究,对于生命树的根部的位置,最普遍接受的观点是位于单系域细菌和一个由古细菌和真核生物组成的演化枝之间,这被称为“传统生命树”。<ref>{{cite book |editor1-first=David R. |editor1-last=Boone |editor2-first=Richard W. |editor2-last=Castenholz |editor3-first=George M. |editor3-last=Garrity |title=The ''Archaea'' and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic ''Bacteria'' |series=Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology |isbn=978-0-387-21609-6 |url=https://www.springer.com/life+sciences/microbiology/book/978-0-387-98771-2 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225112809/http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/microbiology/book/978-0-387-98771-2 |archivedate=25 December 2014|publisher=Springer |year=2001 }}{{page needed|date=June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Woese CR, Fox GE |title= Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain: the primary kingdoms. |journal= Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A |volume=74|pages= 5088–5090 |year=1977 |issue= 11 |pmid=270744 |pmc=432104|doi=10.1073/pnas.74.11.5088|bibcode= 1977PNAS...74.5088W }}</ref> | 根据从卡尔·沃斯 Carl Woese 开始的一些分子研究,对于生命树的根部的位置,最普遍接受的观点是位于单系域细菌和一个由古细菌和真核生物组成的演化枝之间,这被称为“传统生命树”。<ref>{{cite book |editor1-first=David R. |editor1-last=Boone |editor2-first=Richard W. |editor2-last=Castenholz |editor3-first=George M. |editor3-last=Garrity |title=The ''Archaea'' and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic ''Bacteria'' |series=Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology |isbn=978-0-387-21609-6 |url=https://www.springer.com/life+sciences/microbiology/book/978-0-387-98771-2 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225112809/http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/microbiology/book/978-0-387-98771-2 |archivedate=25 December 2014|publisher=Springer |year=2001 }}{{page needed|date=June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Woese CR, Fox GE |title= Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain: the primary kingdoms. |journal= Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A |volume=74|pages= 5088–5090 |year=1977 |issue= 11 |pmid=270744 |pmc=432104|doi=10.1073/pnas.74.11.5088|bibcode= 1977PNAS...74.5088W }}</ref> |