LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Louis Pasteur is credited with conclusively disproving the theory of spontaneous generation with his famous swan-neck flask experiment. He subsequently proposed that “life only comes from life.”

Detailed explanation-2: -By 1860, the debate had become so heated that the Paris Academy of Sciences offered a prize for any experiments that would help resolve this conflict. The prize was claimed in 1864 by Louis Pasteur, as he published the results of an experiment he did to disproved spontaneous generation in these microscopic organisms.

Detailed explanation-3: -1n 1864, Pasteur was quoted saying in a lecture: “Omne vivum ex vivo” (“Life only comes from life”). Pasteur and other scientists started to use the word biogenesis for the origin of life which again meant that life comes only from another life. This sums up the theory of spontaneous generation.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first scientist to challenge the theory of spontaneous generation was Francesco Redi with his experiments with containers or rotting meat and maggots.