Steve McComas: ’Tis the season to be thankful for much in Minnesota waters
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Thanksgiving sometimes gets lost in the shuffle, as we seem to go directly from Halloween to the Christmas season. But during the short Thanksgiving season, I’ve been reflecting on what lake-related things we should be thankful for.
To start at the beginning, I’m thankful that bacteria acquired the ability to photosynthesize, which produced oxygen as a byproduct about 2.5 billion years ago. That “great oxygenation event” started by cyanobacteria allowed for life on earth as we know it.
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