Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781337408332
Author: Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 19, Problem 3SQ
Stanley Miller's experiment demonstrated that _______.
- a. Earth is more than 4 billion years old
- b. under some conditions, amino acids can assemble spontaneously from inorganic materials
- c. oxygen is necessary for all life
- d. RNA was the first genome
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