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Sprint 8:23 AM @ 8%)?0.+ a session.masteringbiology.com C Unit 7 Quiz Chapter 1S Key Concept Quiz Question 2 22 off 30 Part A Creationists sometimes disparage the experiments of Miller and Urey (apparatus illustrated below), pointing out that they did not make all of the amino acids we see today in any given run of the experiment. This criticism misses the point of the Miller-Urey experiments, as they intended to demonstrate View Available Hint(s) that they could build macromolecules (especially functional proteins) in the absence of living organisms that organic molecules can be made from inorganic building blocks in the absence of living organisms Provide Feedback

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Stanley Miller & Harold Urey tested the Oparin-Haldane hypothesis by creating laboratory conditions comparable to those that scientists at the time thought existed on early Earth. His apparatus yielded a variety of amino acids
found in organisms today, along with other organic compounds.

The Miller- Urey experiment demonstrated that simple organic molecules can be made from inorganic compounds.

Thus, Option c) is correct.

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