Here something that might help
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Most scientists believe that for half of </span>Earth's<span> 4.6-billion-year history, the</span>atmosphere<span> contained almost no </span>oxygen<span>. Cyanobacteria or blue-green algae became the first microbes to produce </span>oxygen<span> by photosynthesis, perhaps as long ago as 3.5 billion years ago and certainly by 2.7 billion years ago.</span>
The answer is A.
Why: The heart is part of an organism, so that doesn't exactly count. Soil is not alive, and neither is clay. Therefore, Bacteria must be it. Bacteria is a living thing, and can function by itself.
Scale insects mature as sessile.
Is a disadvantage because sessile means nonmotile, which means food has to be readily there for them which it's just not bc land animals typically have to keep moving to survive
When a cell is not dividing, the DNA is loosely spread throughout the nucleus in a threadlike form called chromatin.