The rise of
bacteria performing photosynthesis, which releases oxygen as a byproduct, is often considered the source of the rapid increase in atmospheric oxygen, which had previously been scarce.
Not exact matches
Symbiogenesis recognizes that the mitochondria [the energy factories] in animal, plant, and fungal cells came from oxygen - respiring
bacteria and that chloroplasts in plants and algae — which
perform photosynthesis — came from cyanobacteria.
The
bacteria also supply the energy required by the enzymes — by
performing photosynthesis.
This plant may look like an ordinary tobacco plant, but on the inside it was engineered to express
bacteria proteins which helps it
perform more efficient
photosynthesis.