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The Oparin-Haldane Hypothesis: Proof of Prebiotic Synthesis

The Oparin-Haldane hypothesis stimulated experimental work to test the hypothesis that organic compounds characteristic of life could be formed from the simpler molecules present in the prebiotic environment. In 1953, Stanley Miller and Harold Urey in Chicago successfully simulated the conditions thought to prevail on the primitive earth. Miller built …

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