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Oxygen is so pervasive in the environment that it would be very difficult for a microbe to always avoid physical contact with it. What, therefore, is the most obvious way for a microbe to avoid damage

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If it cannot avoid it, it just find a mechanism to use oxygen and make it less harmful to itself. This is how the process of cellular respiration may have evolved
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