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Explain when plants and animals first showed up on earth. Include geologic time frame.
Plants and Animals forms a major entity in thie process of creation of life, out of all the resraches that have been done and found out the cynobacteria came into being even before the viruses and then the evidence of fungi after which came the plants especially the ones that photosynthesised. it is believed that the plants which mainly was in the form of mosses and algae actually came into existance around 500 million years ago. The plant which are predominant in this era are the ones who might have deep roots present in the earth due to changes in the soil and coompost that have happend over the years, but mosses were actually tha group of plants which did not have deep roots under the soil. the plants and animals were in one group because the concept of photosynthesis was not discovered but later both the plants and animal groups were separted based on who could synthesize their own food in the prsence of sunlight. As far as the evolution of animals is concerned, the fossil records of the first animals on earth is dated back to 700 million years ago. Therefore the evolution of plants happend beforre that of the animals.
The evoidence of a sngle cell organism existed who fed on gases like methane, then came viruses, then the evidenceb of oxygen which came into existance by the cynobacteria which also lead to the concept of photosynthesis that released oxygen and took up carbon di oxide after which the eukaryotic cells came into being which were multicellular in nature and that led to the evidence of the first animal species and life continued.
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