Multiple choice

The early belief that living things arose from non-living matter was first disproved by-

  1. A.I. Oparin

  2. Joseph Hooker

  3. Robert Hooke

  4. Louis Pasteur

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Louis Pasteur disproved the theory of spontaneous generation in 1859 using his famous swan-neck flask experiment. He showed that microorganisms only appeared in broths when exposed to air containing dust particles, not from spontaneous generation from non-living matter.