In the 1920s, Aleksander Oparin and John Haldane each made independent proposals about the formation of life on Earth. What did they say about essential organic molecules?

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Both Aleksander Oparin and John Haldane proposed that essential organic molecules, such as amino acids, could have been made in the absence of life in the conditions on primordial Earth through a process called abiotic synthesis. This idea was later supported by the Miller-Urey experiment, which demonstrated that simple organic molecules could be produced under conditions resembling the early Earth's atmosphere.

In the 1920s, Aleksander Oparin and John Haldane Each Made