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To: gundog
Ah, one of the culprits in filling our atmosphere with corrosive oxygen.

Not fungi! Nope, they're heterotrophs, like animals! That means that they do not photosynthesize, and must instead derive their metabolic energy from other sources, either as symbionts or parasites.

They consume oxygen, and then emit the plant-food carbon dioxide.

Regards,

17 posted on 05/24/2019 9:54:58 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

Apparently Diskagna housed a photosymbiont responsible for some of the early oxygenation

Don’t plants require oxygen to metabolize in the absence of light? The net result is more oxygen than carbon dioxide, but they still must metabolize at night.


18 posted on 05/24/2019 10:16:09 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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