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Name the smallest living cell that completely lacks a cell wall and can servive without oxygen.

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Mycoplasma is the smallest living cell which lacks cell wall and can survive without oxygen. They are facultative anaerobes, so they can switch to anaerobic mode in the absence of oxygen except for M. pneumoniae, which is a strict aerobe.

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