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What were the first organisms to release oxygen into the atmosphere?
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∙ 6y ago
Oxygen was a waste product of the first organisms. They fed on the chemicals in the early sea, and spewed out oxygen, so much oxygen that oxygen replaced the carbon dioxide as an insulation layer. Plant today produce oxygen by photosynthesis.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 12y agoFor half of Earth's 4.6-billion-year history, the atmosphere contained almost no oxygen.
Cyanobacteria or blue-green algae became the first microbes to produce oxygen by photosynthesis, perhaps as long ago as 3.5 billion years ago. They and their descendent organisms (plants) slowly oxygenated the oceans and then the atmosphere.
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∙ 10y agoIt is probably that the blue-green algae were the guys who invented photosynthesis. The important part of this process is the splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen. The algae then combine the Hydrogen with CO2 from the air/water, and make more complex chemicals from these.
It is salutary to infer from the fact that the chlorophyll is green, that the wavelengths absorbed by the algae are towards the red end of the spectrum.
You could have a crack at the Oxygen Catastrophe in a reliable encyclopedia such as wikipedia.
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∙ 10y agoCyanobacteria, which produced Oxygen by photosynthesizing.
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∙ 10y agoCyanobacteria were the first organisms to produce oxygen.
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∙ 14y agoCyanobacteria AKA blue-green algae
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∙ 14y agoPlants do, but they also produce CO2
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How did earth's organisms change during the first period of Paleozoic era?
increased oxygen in the atmosphere caused the extinction o many single-celled organisms.
What changed your formerly poisonous atmosphere into an oxygen rich atmosphere?
well, the first ice age is when blocks of ice and rocks release oxygen which helps us breathe
Does glycolosis or Krebs cycle come first?
Glycolysis evolved first. Cells of all types of organisms are able to carry out glycolysis. The Krebs cycle arose after photosynthetic organisms began adding oxygen to the atmosphere because Krebs cycle requires oxygen and glycolysis does not.
What are the advantages of photosynthesis?
The process of photosynthesis has clear evolutionary advantages to plant and bacterial species. First they are able to passively fix their energy sources from abundant atmospheric carbon and the sun's light. This is in contrast to an animal that must gather and actively metabolize already fixed carbon (organic) sources and respire oxygen.
What are phytoplanktons?
Phytoplankton refers to a broad category of organisms. Many belong to the kingdom Protista, and some belong to the kingdom Monera. They are all microscopic organisms that are capable of undergoing photosynthesis. Phytoplankton, or phytoplankton-like organisms are believed to be responsible for the Earth's first mass extinction, as their waste product, oxygen was suddenly released into the early atmosphere, which acted as a poison to early organisms that was used to the abundant sulfur in the atmosphere.
What is inferred to be the main source of the free oxygen that first entered earth's atmosphere?
oxygen producing organisms
What came first oxygen or life?
Life came first. The oxygen in Earth's atmosphere is a product of living organisms carrying out photosynthesis.
Which of these statements is true about the oxygen revolution?
Cyanobacteria were the first organisms to produce oxygen in water, which then escaped into the atmosphere.
What organisms first introduced oxygen into earth's atmosphere?
Colonies of algae-like single celled organisms called stromatolites
Which of these was the first source of oxygen in our atmosphere?
They were the oldest organisms called Stromatolites which did not need oxygen themselves but produced it by photosynthesis.
How did oxygen get in your atmosphere?
Oxygen was released from Precambrian rocks. cynobacteria were the first organisms to produce oxygen 2.5-3 billion years ago
Has the atmosphere always had the same compisition?
No, it has changed over time. Ex) There was no oxygen when the first organisms evolved.
Why do scientists think that the first organisms did not need oxygen to survive?
Breathable oxygen, or O2, did not exist in large quantities in the atmosphere until after the evolution of photosynthetic organisms. Hence, early organisms had to have an anaerobic metabolism, or one that did not require oxygen. However, compounds containing oxygen, such as water, have always been necessary to organisms.
How did earth's organisms change during the first period of Paleozoic era?
increased oxygen in the atmosphere caused the extinction o many single-celled organisms.
What changed your formerly poisonous atmosphere into an oxygen rich atmosphere?
well, the first ice age is when blocks of ice and rocks release oxygen which helps us breathe
What do scientists think was the of the oxygen in earths atmosphere?
It came from primitive organisms early in earth's history. They were the first organisms to use photosynthesis to make food, by using light to convert Carbon dioxide and water into glucose (food) and oxygen. Since oxygen is a waste product of photosynthesis, it was released into the air. As more and more of these organisms multiplied, large amounts of oxygen were released into the air, forming today's atmosphere.
What do scientist think was the source of the oxygen in earths atmosphere?
It came from primitive organisms early in earth's history. They were the first organisms to use photosynthesis to make food, by using light to convert Carbon dioxide and water into glucose (food) and oxygen. Since oxygen is a waste product of photosynthesis, it was released into the air. As more and more of these organisms multiplied, large amounts of oxygen were released into the air, forming today's atmosphere.
