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Primordial Soup Hypothesis: Harold Urey And Haldane
Primordial soup hypothesis: In the primordial soup hypothesis it claims that life started from a pond and chemical bonds started forming from amino acids and created multiple types of proteins which evolved into life as we know it today. In 1920 Alexander Oparin and J. B. S. Haldane both thought this theory up by themselves. The evidence that supported their claim is that in 1953 Harold Urey and Stanley Miller decided to test their theory and had a test where they trapped methane, hydrogen, ammonia, and water in a closed structure. In this test they had continuous electric sparks to represent lightning strikes and after a day the substance changed color. A week after this test has been going on the substance formed 25 amino acids. The reasoning
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