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The biological significance of iron compounds lies in the fact that they are capable of reversible oxidoreduction, which is such a basic function of living organisms that the first protoplasms to evolve must have possessed this ability (Granick, 1953). It is unlikely that the ability for oxidation would have developed only with the development of the heme molecule.
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Bernát, I. (1983). Biochemical Evolution of the Heme-Type Enzymes. In: Iron Metabolism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7308-1_2
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