• CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Earths biosphere was originally anerobic, the evolution of photosynthesis pretty much wiped out all life that existed at the time (though it was all bacteria at that point).

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      anerobic

      anaerobic /ăn″ə-rō′bĭk, -âr-ō′-/

      adjective Living or occurring in the absence of free oxygen. “anaerobic bacteria.” Of or relating to anaerobes. Not requiring air or oxygen for life; – applied especially to those microbes to which free oxygen is unnecessary; anaërobiotic; – opposed to aërobic