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A captured bacterium that never left, now quietly feeding the entire planet from inside a leaf.
former prisonerWas once a free-living cyanobacterium, swallowed billions of years ago
own DNAKeeps its own genome, defying its host cell
oxygen factoryMade Earth's atmosphere breathable, possibly killing most early life
sun trickSplits water with light to release the oxygen you breathe
self-replicatingDivides independently like the microbe it descends from