Multiple choice

Which one of the following experiments suggests that simplest living organisms could not have originated spontaneously from non-living matter?

  1. Larvae could appear in decaying organic matter.

  2. Meat was not spoiled, when heated and kept sealed in a vessel.

  3. Microbes did not appear in stored meat.

  4. Microbes appeared from unsterilised organic matter.
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Explanation

  Meat was not spoiled, when heated and kept sealed in a vessel, This experiment suggests that simplest living organisms could not have originated spontaneously from non-living matter.This  experiment was showing evidence against theory of spontanous generation.

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