Imagine you were there when Stanley Miller carried out his experiment about the building blocks of life. If Miller originally identified five different amino acids, how many polypeptides that are 10 amino acids long

could be made from just these five amino acids?
A. 5 ×10 = 50
B. 105 = 100,000
C. 510 = 9,765, 625
D. Cannot be determined


Answer C

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