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Which organisms produce about half of the Oxygen in Earth?

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At least half of Earth's oxygen comes from the ocean.

The majority of this production is from oceanic plankton — drifting plants, algae, and some bacteria that can photosynthesize. One particular species, Prochlorococcus, is the smallest photosynthetic organism on Earth.

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