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How did cyanobacteria aid the evolution of complex life on land? Do you think cyanobacteria are as significant to this process today as they were during Precambrian time?

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Answer:

Oxygen, origin of plants and chloroplast.

Step-by-step explanation:

The oxygen present in our atmosphere was generated by various species of cyanobacteria during the Archaean and Proterozoic Eras. origin of plants on the earth is other great contribution of the cyanobacteria. The chloroplast which is present in plants due to which they make their own food is actually a cyanobacterium living within the plant's cells.

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