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1 Department of Biology, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

2 Department of Physics, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

\*Address all correspondence to: aalabdalall@iau.edu.sa

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