Question
  1. State Oparin-Haldane’s hypothesis.
  2. How does S.L. Miller’s experiment supports it?

Answer

  1. Life could have come from pre-existing non-living organic molecules, and that formation of life was preceded by chemical evolution.
  2. (S. L. Miller created condition similar to prehistoric earth in the laboratory) He created electric discharge in a closed flask, containing CH4 H2 NHand water vapour, at 8000C observed formation of amino acid (organic molecules)

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