Which was absent in the products analyzed at the conclusion of the Miller-Urey experiments?
A) Most of the amino acids used in protein synthesis
B) Small carbon sugars
C) Adenine and thymine
D) Nucleotides
E) Uracil

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Nucleotides, the basic building blocks of nucleic acids like DNA and RNA, were not among the organic compounds produced in the Miller-Urey experiments. These experiments primarily yielded simple organic molecules such as amino acids, not the more complex molecules like nucleotides.

Which Was Absent in the Products Analyzed at the Conclusion