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Photosystem II: The Light-Fueled Engine of Life's Oxygen Factory

The world that we see around us has all sorts of different life forms, some are like giant structures that come out of the earth and have umbrella-like foliage, yes, the trees! some are so tiny whose existence we might not know if not for the advent of the microscope, bacteria, viruses and the list go on and on. Some creatures are ginormous like the blue whale, through the artery of whose, a man can crawl through. There are birds, reptiles, fishes of all kinds, and how marvelously diverse it is.  Because of such a thriving biodiversity, a lot of attempts have been made for a long time to classify the organisms based on a variety of criteria like if it's an animal or a plant, what sort of cells it is made up of, etc. The popularly accepted classification was given by R. H. Whittaker in 1969 which divided the life forms into 5 kingdoms called Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia. Then another widely accepted classification was given by Carl Woese who gave 3 domain classific...

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