Experiments on the origin and spread of microbes and on the chemistry of early life, including Pasteur's flask experiments and the Miller-Urey experiment. An experiment belongs here when its cited article describes it as a study of microbes, spontaneous generation or the origin of life. It excludes studies of heredity, which sit in their own group. Browse By lists these entries together so that a reader can move from one to the next and compare how each is described in the sources of the atlas.
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Louis Pasteur (Wikipedia)
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Under the auspices of the French Academy of Sciences, his experiment demonstrated that in sterilized and sealed flasks, nothing ever developed; conversely, in sterilized but open flasks, microorganisms could grow.
Miller-Urey experiment (Wikipedia)
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The Miller-Urey experiment, or Miller experiment, was an experiment in chemical synthesis carried out in 1952 that simulated the conditions thought at the time to be present in the atmosphere of the early, prebiotic Earth.
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