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The Miller–Urey Experiment (Encore)

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The Miller-Urey Experiment and the Formation of Building Blocks of Life

Exploring the groundbreaking Miller-Urey experiment conducted in 1952, which simulated the early Earth's atmosphere and observed the formation of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. This led to the establishment of prebiotic chemistry and further experiments that demonstrated the creation of adenine, a base molecule of DNA.

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