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Scientists found _______ containing fossilized cyanobacteria. Oparin and Haldane hypothesized that life needed reducing environments initially. The ocean in the early ages was ______.

a. Rocks / Oxygenated
b. Sediments / Acidic
c. Sediments / Oxygenated
d. Rocks / Devoid of oxygen

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Cyanobacteria, which produce oxygen as a by-product of photosynthesis, appeared within one billion years of Earth's formation, leading to the oxygenation of the atmosphere.

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d. For the first two billion years of Earth's existence, the atmosphere had no molecular oxygen. Thus, the first organisms were anaerobic. Cyanobacteria which produce oxygen as a by-product of photosynthesis, leading to the oxygenation of the atmosphere, appeared within one billion years of Earth's formation. From these organisms evolved phototrophic organisms.

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