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Evidence from miller and urey's experiments suggest that complex organic molecules could be formed from other, simpler molecules. why is it unlikely that this process is still occuring today?

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there is too much polution in the environment, so the lab cannot be completly sanitary

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Living organisms such as bacteria are likely to interfere in the process by breaking down the organic molecules.
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