Origin of Life: The Miller Experiment

 

R.W. Peifer

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 1986, Volume 7

Abstract

Detailed directions on how to assemble and safely operate a Miller apparatus are provided. Additionally, students investigate the question of how life could have emerged from a non-chiral world and evolved into life forms based on chemical asymmetry.

Keywords:  handedness, chirality, origin of life, Miller, redox, stereoisomers, Haldane, Oparin

University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1985)