Sentences with phrase «likely cyanobacteria»

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But with our planet as their guide, astrobiologists are forced to acknowledge that oxygen may be the least likely thing they will ever see — genetic evidence suggests the complex oxygen - producing photosynthetic pathway pioneered by cyanobacteria is an extraordinary evolutionary innovation that only appeared once throughout the entire multi-billion-year history of Earth's biosphere.

For eons, the mineral iron, which once saturated oceans, likely bonded with phosphorus, and sank it down to dark ocean depths, far away from those shallows — also called continental margins — where cyanobacteria would have needed it to thrive and make oxygen.

The bacteria that live inside of our guts, however, most likely face similar daily challenges as those experienced by cyanobacteria because we give them food during the day when we eat but not during the night.

«Whiffs from cyanobacteria likely responsible for Earth's oxygen.»

«The abundance of Spartobacteria correlates with some specific Cyanobacteria so most likely these produce what Spartobacteria eat.

It does contain a modicum of truth, however, in that the largest volume of stromatolitic formations was likely formed by biogenic processes involving photosynthetic cyanobacteria.