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Urey and Miller Experiment

Urey and Miller Experiment . By Belinda Douglas . Who are Urey and Miller? . Stanley Miller and Harold Urey were two scientists who conducted the ‘Urey and Miller Experiment in 1952. Left: Harold Urey Right: Stanley Miller. What is the experiment ? .

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Urey and Miller Experiment

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  1. Urey and Miller Experiment By Belinda Douglas

  2. Who are Urey and Miller? • Stanley Miller and Harold Urey were two scientists who conducted the ‘Urey and Miller Experiment in 1952. • Left: Harold Urey • Right: Stanley Miller

  3. What is the experiment ? • The experiment was an early earth’s atmosphere which contained lightening and gases to show how life on earth had began.

  4. The Experiment

  5. Reason ? • The reason for the experiment was to test the ideas of Oparin. • And because the early Earth had a reducing atmosphere. • And to see how life on earth begun.

  6. The results? • Urey and Miller showed how gasses of an anoxic environment, combined with electricity can form organic compounds and amino acids. • Urey and Miller simulated hypothetical conditions which would be present in early earth.

  7. Importance of the experiment ? • The Observation, speculation, observations, hypothesis, testing of the hypothesis. • Miller was testing the idea that biologically interesting molecules could have been formed. • He demonstrated that it was possible.

  8. Contribution ? • The Urey and Miller experiment showed confirmation that biological molecules could be formed from no biological processes. • It showed that the idea that life itself could have formed from no biological no magical processes on the early Earth.

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