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What evidence do we have for the origin of life from inanimate matter?
Answer:
- Oparin and Haldane came up with a hypothesis to support the origin of life .
- This hypothesis was used by Stanley L. Miller and Harold C. Urey to perform an experiment.
- In a large flask they added methane, hydrogen and ammonia to mimic the primitive atmosphere (it did not have Oxygen).
- They took water in a smaller flask to mimic water bodies and heated it so that water entered the larger flask (evaporation).
- Then an electric spark was created to mimic lightning .
- This resulted in the formation of organic molecules like amino acids which further form proteins which support living beings .
- This gives evidence for the origin of life from inanimate matter .
- This is known as the Urey-Miller Experiment .
