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What would be the impact on the environment if an artificial virus that attacked and destroyed chloroplasts in plant cells was accidentally released by a research company? (9 points)

User GlyphGryph
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the plants would die bc it would not be able to make any food 4 itself
User LumberHack
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the other guy is right, and the more widespread impact over time would be less oxygen because plants convert CO2 into oxygen. There would be more CO2 in the air and humans would starve and be nutritionally deprived, although that's prob not environmental.
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