Question

Although the origins of life are unknown, we do know that the building blocks of life are complex organic molecules. One of the first experiments to investigate the chemical origins of life was the Stanley-Urey experiment.

  

Describe the Stanley-Urey experiment and discuss it's findings. (5pts)

Answer 1

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In the 1950's, biochemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey, directed an experiment which exhibited that few organic compounds could be framed immediately by mimicking the states of Earth's initial atmosphere.

They planned a mechanical assembly which held a blend of gases like those found in Earth's initial atmosphere over a pool of water, speaking to Earth's initial sea. Electrodes conveyed an electric current, recreating lightning, into the gas-filled chamber. In the wake of enabling the experiment to keep running for multi week, they dissected the substance of the fluid pool. They found that few organic amino acids had shaped suddenly from inorganic crude materials. These molecules gathered together in the pool of water to shape coacervates.

Their experiments, alongside impressive topographical, organic, and substance proof, loans support to the hypothesis that the first life forms emerged immediately through normally occuring concoction responses. Be that as it may, there are as yet numerous cynics of this hypothesis who stay unconvinced. English astrophysicist, Fred Hoyle, thinks about the probability of life showing up on Earth by synthetic responses "as equal to the likelihood that a tornado clearing through a junkyard may collect a Boeing 747 from the materials in that".