The first person who proposed that small organic molecules can be formed in and oxygen-deprived environment was
A
Stanley Miller
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Thomas Cech
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C
Aleksander
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D
Sidney Fox
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Solution
The correct option is C Aleksander In 1924, the Russian biochemist Aleksandr Oparin proposed that life could have developed through gradual chemical evolution in a “primordial soup.” This theory was independently proposed by English geneticist J.B.S. Haldane, also in the 1920s. This theory states that a mixture of organic molecules could form in an oxygen-deprived environment through the random interactions of small molecules, with energy provided by sunlight and lightning. This theory is not without controversy.