How did Louis Pasteur disprove the theory of spontaneous generation?

How did Louis Pasteur disprove the theory of spontaneous generation?
  1. Through careful experimentation
  2. By studying the fossil record
  3. Through mathematical models
  4. Through observation of other planets

Solution

Louis Pasteur by careful experimentation demonstrated that life comes only from preexisting life. He showed that in pre:sterilised flasks, life did not come from killed yeast while in another flask open to air, new living organisms arose from ‘killed yeast’.

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