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An analogue version of this experiment was run by Miller and Urey back in 1952. Putting water, methane, ammonia and hydrogen in a bottle and hitting the mixture
by vixen99 6y ago
An analogue version of this experiment was run by Miller and Urey back in 1952. Putting water, methane, ammonia and hydrogen in a bottle and hitting the mixture with energy in the form of artificial lightening, they generated eleven amino acids, as they thought. In fact it was at least twenty including the set that living organisms use. Apparently a lot of other molecules were created 'too complex to resolve'. Similar experiments have formed RNA and DNA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment details the results for these and other analogue experiments.