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What bacteria are thought to be responsible for establishing Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere?
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Cyanobacteria are believed to be responsible for establishing Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere. Nearly 2.3 billion years ago, these microbes, which lived in the seas, were the first organisms to produce oxygen, leading to the transformation of the Earth's environment.
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What kinds of organismns can remove nitrogen from the atmosphere?
bacteria
What are carbon dioxide planets?
Both Venus and Mars have carbon-dioxide atmospheres. The Earth also started with a carbon-dioxide atmosphere but the development of anerobic bacteria produced oxygen as a waste-product which eventually altered the atmosphere and killed off the bacteria but allowed other types of organism using oxygen to develop, and that eventually led to animal life.
Has evidence of life been found outside the earths atmosphere?
Unless you mean astronauts, then no. Unfortunately, no evidence of alien life, not even bacteria, has been found so far.
Would the atmosphere on the four largest planets support earth type life forms?
It wouldn't support humans, but some extremophile bacteria could probably live there just fine.
What was the early atmosphere like?
That depends upon which Epoch. There have been four mass extinctions [over several hundreds of million Years] caused by Earth being over run by Cyano-[Purple]-bacteria; these onslaughts were caused by highly irregular Atmospheric Conditions.
What is responsible for making nitrogen in the atmosphere usable by living organisms?
nitrogen fixing bacteria
What is responsible for the decay of organisms?
Bacteria
Soil bacteria are responsible for carrying many steps in the nitrogen cycle. Soil bacteria are NOT responsible for?
Assimilation
What does bacteria do with nitrogen from the atmosphere?
eats it
Which is responsible for recycling of material?
Bacteria is responsible for recycling of materials.
Which is The bacteria responsible for fixing nitrogen in soyabean?
Bacteria of the genus Rhizobium.
Soil bacteria are NOT responsible for?
ammonification
What kind of organisms can remove nitrogen from the atmosphere?
Bacteria can remove nitrogen from the atmosphere.
who was the first scientist to suggest bacteria is responsible for many diseases?
Who was the scientist who first suggested that the bacteria are responsible for many diseases of humans and animals
How is nitrogen returned to the atmosphere in the nitrogen?
Denitrification by bacteria
What kinds of organismns can remove nitrogen from the atmosphere?
bacteria
What is space bacteria?
Bacteria that hav entered Earth's atmosphere from outer space.....creepy ...huh
