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Describe Millers's experiment what conclusion could be drawn from this experiment?
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- In the 1950s, biochemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey conducted an experiment which demonstrated that several organic compounds could be formed spontaneously by forming the conditions of Earth's early atmosphere.
- They designed an apparatus which held a mixture of gases similar to those found in Earth's early atmosphere over a pool of water, representing Earth's early ocean.
- Electrodes delivered an electric current, simulating lightning, into the gas-filled chamber.
- After allowing the experiment to run for one week, they analyzed the contents of the liquid pool.
- They found that several organic amino acids had formed spontaneously from inorganic raw material.
- Their experiments, along with considerable geological, biological, and chemical evidence, lends support to the theory that the first life forms arose spontaneously through naturally occurring chemical reactions.
- In the 1950s, biochemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey conducted an experiment which demonstrated that several organic compounds could be formed spontaneously by forming the conditions of Earth's early atmosphere.
- They designed an apparatus which held a mixture of gases similar to those found in Earth's early atmosphere over a pool of water, representing Earth's early ocean.
- Electrodes delivered an electric current, simulating lightning, into the gas-filled chamber.
- After allowing the experiment to run for one week, they analyzed the contents of the liquid pool.
- They found that several organic amino acids had formed spontaneously from inorganic raw material.
- Their experiments, along with considerable geological, biological, and chemical evidence, lends support to the theory that the first life forms arose spontaneously through naturally occurring chemical reactions.
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