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Oxygen first entered Earth's atmosphere when one-celled organisms resembling modern cyanobacteria began to carry out the process of _____.

A fossilization
B evolution
C photosynthesis
D erosion

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Answer is C since since its algae or blue algae 
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Answer: C. Photosynthesis

Cynobacteria, or blue green algae were the first primitive single celled organisms on planet earth, that were capable of performing photosynthesis on planet Earth. The cynobacteria were responsible for producing oxygen by oxidizing water to evolve oxygen, using sunlight and carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere. These primitive organisms had chloroplast to capture the sunlight.




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