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. Microbes did not appear in stored meat.

  3. Microbes appeared from unsterilized organic matter.

  4. Meat was not spoiled, when heated and kept sealed in a vessel.
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Louis Pasteur's experiments with swan-neck flasks demonstrated that microorganisms do not arise spontaneously from sterile broth, effectively disproving spontaneous generation.

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