Molecular oxygen is so reactive that it would not exist in Earth’s atmosphere today if it were not constantly replenished by organisms that release oxygenas a waste product of photosynthesis. What does that fact suggest about the evolution of aerobic respiration and oxygen-releasing photosynthetic processes?

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Molecular oxygen is so reactive that it would not exist in Earth’s atmosphere today if it were not constantly replenished by organisms that release oxygen
as a waste product of photosynthesis. What does that fact suggest about the evolution of aerobic respiration and oxygen-releasing photosynthetic processes?

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