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How did earth's atmosphere become oxygen-rich

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Biological Activity

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Cyanobacteria or blue-green algae produce oxygen

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Most scientists consider that toward half of Earth's 4.6-billion-year antiquity, the atmosphere carried about no oxygen. Cyanobacteria or blue-green algae became the leading microbes to generate oxygen by photosynthesis, possibly as long ago as 3.5 billion years ago and certainly by 2.7 billion years ago

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