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UV-B passes to Earth's surface, when ozone does not stop it. UV-B can travel some short distance into seawater before it is scattered and its energy reduced. Phytoplankton has DNA, and lives near the surface of the ocean where sunlight is strong. UV-B destroys DNA.

So ozone depletion kills or mutates phytoplankton, via UV-B from the Sun.

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