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der the conditions of that time, destructi- Fox, Sydney
ve chemical and physical effects produ-
Sydney Fox maintained that proteins,
ced by the intense ultraviolet rays reac-
the building blocks of life, had formed by
hing the Earth and by uncontrolled natu-
chance from amino acids and carried out
ral conditions would have broken down
an experiment in an attempt to demons-
these proteinoids and made it impossible
trate this. (See Fox Experiment, the.)
for them to survive. Because of the Le
Under the influence of
Chatelier’s principle, there
Miller’s scenario, Fox
can be no question of these
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amino acids being under-
acids and produced mole-
water where ultraviolet
cules he named “proteino-
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ids”. However, these
In the light of all these
functionless amino acid
facts, the idea that prote-
chains had nothing to do
inoid molecules represen-
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that compose living
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