Microbiology: An Introduction
Microbiology: An Introduction
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780321733603
Author: Gerard J. Tortora, Berdell R. Funke, Christine L. Case
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
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1. How did the idea of spontaneous generation come about?

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The historical perspective of spontaneous generation hypothesis

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Spontaneous generation was a hypothesis that postulated that a living organism develops from a non-living thing.

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Microbiology: An Introduction, Chapter 1, Problem 1R

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Since the time of Louis Pasteur’s theory of biogenesis had been introduced, no one was able to refute Pasteur’s experiment and that ended the concept of abiogenesis or spontaneous generation.

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