Who was that guy who synthesized DNA in a steril container, and watched cellular life form??

Question

Who was that guy who synthesized DNA in a steril container, and watched cellular life form??

Answer 1

What??? Ron have you heard of Watson and Crick the Nobel peace prize winners for their work on DNA. You are wrong on so many levels.

your question needs to be written in a clearer format. cellular life is formed and watched in artificial semination every day. what specifically are you asking?

Answer 2

Nobody ever did that. All tests have failed. Some thought they succeeded but it turned out their experiment was contaminated. I think you can get some proteins and amino acids though. They're not DNA. You can't just put a bunch of chemicals in a test tube and expect to get DNA. DNA is far too complex. Nobody knows how DNA came into existent yet. It is a great mystery.

[Ro - Yes I'm familiar with their work in describing DNA. Are you saying they somehow created DNA in a sterile test container? Nobody every spontaneously created DNA. I don't think artificial insemination really applies here since you have DNA to begin with.]

I'm back with answers! Better late than never. As you will see, no DNA was created.

From Wikipedia:

The Miller-Urey experiment (or Urey-Miller experiment) was an experiment that simulated hypothetical conditions present on the early Earth and tested for the occurrence of chemical evolution. Specifically, the experiment tested Oparin and Haldane's hypothesis that conditions on the primitive Earth favored chemical reactions that synthesized organic compounds from inorganic precursors. Considered to be the classic experiment on the origin of life, it was conducted in 1953 by Stanley L. Miller and Harold C. Urey at the University of Chicago.

The experiment used water (H2O), methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3) and hydrogen (H2). The chemicals were all sealed inside a sterile array of glass tubes and flasks connected together in a loop, with one flask half-full of liquid water and another flask containing a pair of electrodes. The liquid water was heated to induce evaporation, sparks were fired between the electrodes to simulate lightning through the atmosphere and water vapor, and then the atmosphere was cooled again so that the water could condense and trickle back into the first flask in a continuous cycle.

At the end of one week of continuous operation Miller and Urey observed that as much as 10-15% of the carbon within the system was now in the form of organic compounds. Two percent of the carbon had formed amino acids, including 2-3 of the 22 that are used to make proteins in living cells, with glycine as the most abundant. Sugars, lipids, and some of the building blocks for nucleic acids were also formed. Nucleic acids (DNA, RNA) themselves were not formed. As observed in all consequent experiments, both left-handed (L) and right-handed (D) optical isomers were created in a racemic mixture.