There are several proposed mechanisms that could have produced organic monomers. What mechanism involves the formation of organic compounds in interstellar clouds?

a. hydrothermic vents
b. organic compounds arriving on earth via meteorites
c. reactions involving hot water and metal ions from rocks
d. lightening fueled-atmospheric reactions
e. the aggregation of dust and rock bits that were orbiting the sun to form earth


b

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