Question
- State Oparin-Haldane’s hypothesis.
- How does S.L. Miller’s experiment supports it?
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Answer
- Life could have come from pre-existing non-living organic molecules, and that formation of life was preceded by chemical evolution.
- (S. L. Miller created condition similar to prehistoric earth in the laboratory) He created electric discharge in a closed flask, containing $CH_4 H_2 NH_3$ and water vapour, at $800^0C$ observed formation of amino acid (organic molecules)
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