Origins of the Utilization of OxygenEnergy is an essential feature of living things, required not only for movement, cerebration, digestion etc. but also to sustain molecular organization within cells. Muscular activity and varying activity in other tissues, such as brain, heart and gut, and their maintenance, all require provision of energy. The earliest living things were single cells and for them energy was obtained, in the main, from molecular interactions which did not utilize oxygen (anaerobic respiration, e.g. methanogens, which react hydrogen with carbon dioxide making methane as a waste product).
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