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Apr 7, 2008 · Photosynthesis evolved early in Earth’s history. The rapidity of its emergence suggests it was no fluke and could arise on other worlds, too. As organisms released gases that changed the very...
There is geochemical evidence that suggests that anaerobic photosynthesis emerged 3.3 to 3.5 billion years ago. The organisms later developed a Chlorophyll F synthase. They could have also stripped electrons from soluble metal ions although it is unknown.
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Oct 6, 2010 · There is suggestive evidence that photosynthetic organisms were present approximately 3.2 to 3.5 billion years ago, in the form of stromatolites, layered structures similar to forms that are produced by some modern cyanobacteria, as well as numerous microfossils that have been interpreted as arising from phototrophs (Des Marais, 2000). In all ...
- Robert E. Blankenship
- 10.1104/pp.110.161687
- 2010
- Plant Physiol. 2010 Oct; 154(2): 434-438.
Jan 4, 2024 · Scientists found evidence of thylakoids in the Australian fossils, which date to between 1.73 and 1.78 billion years ago, as well as the Canadian fossils, which are 900 million to 1.01 billion...
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Researchers studied the molecular machines responsible for photosynthesis and found the process may have evolved as long as 3.6 billion years ago. I hope I answered your question!
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Mar 20, 2019 · It is widely believed that the photochemical reaction centres used in anoxygenic photosynthesis are more primitive than those used in oxygenic photosynthesis. Ten years ago, when I was still a PhD student and a few years before the study of the evolution of photosynthesis became my full-time job, I came across an interesting and very memorable ...
Photosynthesis drives the movement of matter, or atoms, between organisms and the environment. Photosynthetic organisms take in and use carbon dioxide and water from the air and soil. Photosynthetic organisms release oxygen into the air. Organisms throughout the ecosystem use this oxygen to breathe. Photosynthetic organisms produce sugars ...
