Write the names of the compounds produced in the Miller and Urey tests
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The Miller–Urey experiment[1] (or Miller experiment)[2] was a chemical experiment that simulated the conditions thought at the time (1952) to be present on the early Earth and tested the chemical origin of life under those conditions. The experiment at the time supported Alexander Oparin's and J. B. S. Haldane's hypothesis that putative conditions on the primitive Earth favoured chemical reactions that synthesized more complex organic compounds from simpler inorganic precursors. Considered to be the classic experiment investigating abiogenesis, it was conducted in 1952[3] by Stanley Miller, with assistance from Harold Urey, at the University of Chicago and later the University of California, San Diego and published the following year.[4][5][6]
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The carbon used in this test is converted into simple compounds of carbon including amino acids which make up protein molecules.
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What is Miller and Urey test?
- Miller and Urey formed an appratus (of atmosphere) similar to that exists in early earth. They put molecules molecules like ammonia, methane and hydrogen sulphide, but no oxygen.
- This was maintained at a temperature just below 100°C and artificial lightning is produced and passed through the mixture of gases.
- The carbon used in this test is converted into simple compounds of carbon including amino acids which make up protein molecules.