How did the miller-urey experiment test oparins hypothesis?
1 Answer
The Miller-Urey experiment tested Oparin's hypothesis by reproducing conditions that were believed to exist on the primitive Earth.
Explanation:
Oparin suggested that if the primitive atmosphere was reducing (oxygen-poor), and if there was an appropriate supply of energy such as lightning, then a wide range of organic compounds might be formed.
The experiment tested this hypothesis.
Miller passed a continuous electrical discharge simulating lightning through a mixture of gases (
At the end of one week, as much as 10-15 % of the carbon was in the form of organic compounds.
About 2 % of the carbon had formed over 20 amino acids, including 13 of the 22 that are used to make proteins in living cells.