Stanley Miller's experiment that applied electric sparks to a reducing atmosphere of methane, ammonia, water, and hydrogen showed that under these conditions,

a. nucleotides can form.
b. amino acids can form.
c. amino acids can polymerize into polypeptides.
d. nucleotides can polymerize into nucleic acids.


Ans: b. amino acids can form.

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