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Explain the miller's experiment with the help of diagram?
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- Stanley Miller was an American chemist who conducted one of the most exciting experiments in modern science. He and Harold C. Urey conducted an experiment to understand the origin of life.
- Miller took molecules that represent the major components of the early earth's atmosphere and put them into a closed system.
- The gases used were methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3), hydrogen (H2), and water (H2O). Electric current was passed through the system, to simulate lightning storms believed to be common on the early earth. Analysis of the experiment was done by chromatography.
- At the end of one week, they observed that as much as 10-15% of the carbon was now in the form of organic compounds. Two per cent of the carbon had formed some of the amino acids which are used to make proteins. Thus this experiment showed that organic compounds such as amino acids, which are essential to cellular life, could be made easily under the conditions believed to be present on the early earth.
- Stanley Miller was an American chemist who conducted one of the most exciting experiments in modern science. He and Harold C. Urey conducted an experiment to understand the origin of life.
- Miller took molecules that represent the major components of the early earth's atmosphere and put them into a closed system.
- The gases used were methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3), hydrogen (H2), and water (H2O). Electric current was passed through the system, to simulate lightning storms believed to be common on the early earth. Analysis of the experiment was done by chromatography.
- At the end of one week, they observed that as much as 10-15% of the carbon was now in the form of organic compounds. Two per cent of the carbon had formed some of the amino acids which are used to make proteins. Thus this experiment showed that organic compounds such as amino acids, which are essential to cellular life, could be made easily under the conditions believed to be present on the early earth.
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