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From primitive bacteria that produced oxygen as a waste product.
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How much oxygen was there 2.2 billion years ago?
There was so much oxygen 2.2 billion years ago such that it cannot be computed. In the present day, most of the oxygen has been reduced to metal oxides.
Did the first cells appear ten billion years ago?
No. Earth itself is "only" about 4.6 billion years old. The first life may have emerged about 4 billion years ago.
How many years ago did the first multicellular organisms appeared on earth?
2 billion years ago ... You Plato user huh....
When did life began on earth?
Shortly after the Earth was formed, or a little more than 4 billion years ago.
How long the prokaryotes populated Earth before the evolution of eukaryotic cells which are more complex?
* 3.5 billion years ago the first life arose: prokaryotic bacteria * 1.5 billion years ago eukaryotic cells arose Therefore, prokaryotes were present on earth for 2 billion years prior to the emergence of eukaryotic life.
Was Oxygen present in Earth's second atmosphere over 4.5 billion years ago?
The Carboniferous period, during which oxygen amounted to 35% of the atmosphere by volume (this was around 300 million years ago). Nowadays the amount is 20.95%.
What began producing oxygen more than 2 billion years ago?
the earth
Was the earth around 7 billion years ago?
No, the earth wasn't around 7 billion years ago. Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago.
What was not in the air on earth 3.6 billion years ago?
Oxygen was not present in large amounts in the early atmosphere of Earth.
What happened to the earth 700 billion years ago?
Earth did not exist 700 billion years ago, nor did the universe. Earth is about 4.6 billion years old.
Did earth form 50 billion years ago or 5?
Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago.
How did earth come to have an oxygen rich atmosphere?
Algae activity
How many years ago did large amounts of oxygen gas first appear on Earth's atmosphere?
After plants developed chlorophyll and multiplied to the point where they could "pollute" the primal atmosphere, somewhere between 1 and 2 billion years ago.
What was a gas that was probably abundant in earth's atmosphere 3.6 billion years ago and is still abundant today?
Oxygen
How long ago did the earth form?
The Earth is estimated to have formed about 4.5 billion years ago from the solar nebula.
Is the current oxygen content of the atmosphere lower or higher or about the same as is was millions of years ago?
About the same. About a half billion years ago it was significantly higher, and more than a billion years ago it was lower, much lower. Before 1.5 or 2 billion years ago there was no free oxygen in the atmosphere, before 3 billion years ago there wasn't any.
Which year did earth born on?
The Earth is believed to have coalesced as a solid body roughly 4.5 billion years ago.
