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Cyanbacteria, or blue-green algae. At least that is the current belief shared by most scientists.

My source: An article in a magazine called "Science Illustrated", Volume 5, Issue 5, entitled "Seeing photosynthesis in a new light". Their main point in the article is that cyanbacteria in it's current form has a more efficient type of chloroplast with better enzymes that they want to engineer into agricultural plants, but the mention of cyanbacteria in an older form as the first organisms to use water splitting photosynthesis is also in there.

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