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This is a false presumption. The life that exists on Earth now is dependent on oxygen, but it was not always so. Life on Earth emerged long before there was any noteworthy amount of oxygen. In fact oxygen was highly toxic to the first organisms. Oxygen began to build up in the atmosphere when cyanobacteria began carrying out photosynthesis, which uses sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen.

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