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The first person who proposed that small organic molecules can be formed in and oxygen-deprived environment was

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Stanley Miller
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Thomas Cech
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Aleksander
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Sidney Fox
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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.
So the correct option is 'Aleksander'.

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