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ScienceDaily: Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae and cyanobacteria use the energy from the Sun to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide, releasing oxygen as a waste product. But a few groups of bacteria carry out a simpler form of photosynthesis that does not produce oxygen, which evolved first. A new study by an Imperial researcher suggests that this more primitive form of photosynthesis evolved in much more ancient bacteria than scientists had imagined, more than 3.5 billion years ago.......
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Photosynthesis more ancient than thought, and most living things could do it
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 16th, 2016
Posted in Water Conservation