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From: Amena Smith
Date: 29 Jan 2004
Time: 12:51:05 -0500
Remote Name: 172.16.10.137
This was a thorough response to the question. I liked that you offered a couple of reasonable alternatives. I gathered that the discrepancy between the hypothesized temperature of the primordial soup and the temp. that Miller et.al generated the higher aliphatic aa's can be explained by non-homogenous, variable conditions in the nascent enviroment. You also said it's possible the experimenters were not trying to reproduce prebiotic conditions, but to produce organic molecules from inorganic material only. I don't think this is true because of the last couple paragraphs in the discussion. The authors were definitely concerned with giving proof that their yield of 5, 6 carbon amino acids would have been adequate for prebiotic polypeptide synthesis.