The correct answer is D.
From the scientific research conducted so far, we know that in the early Earth's history the atmosphere lacked oxygen and was mostly filled with other gases like methane. The increase in oxygen levels happened when the plants started producing oxygen as a byproduct of the process of photosynthesis.
The research so far also shows that the RNA was present before the DNA and that the microspheres might have been essential to the development of life on Earth.
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Explanation: The sugar and phosphate group make up the backbone of the DNA double helix, while the bases are located in the middle. A chemical bond between the phosphate group of one nucleotide and the sugar of a neighboring nucleotide holds the backbone together.
Molecular clocks use rates of mutation to measure evolutionary time.Mutations add up at a fairly constant rate in the DNA of species that evolved from a common ancestor. The more mutations that happened in each lineage, the greater is the differences between these lineages.