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Preparation of Dioxygen

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The hypothesis that the early atmosphere combined with and energy source, produced organic monomers was developed in the 1920s by

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Oparin and Haldane

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Miller and Urey

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Curie and Pasteur

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Fox and Pauling

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Solution

The correct option is A Oparin and Haldane
According to Oparin-Haldane hypothesis theory, life evolved in the oceans during a period when the atmosphere was reducing - containing $H_{2}$ , $H_{2} O$ , $N H_{3}$ , $C H_{4}$ and $C O_{2}$ , but no free $O_{2}$ .
Organic compounds were synthesized nonbiologically by ultraviolet light energy, which in the absence of an ozone shield would penetrate the upper layers of the ocean.

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