Spontaneous generation is a superseded scientific theory that held that living creatures could arise from nonliving matter and that such processes were...
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bacterial peritonitis Spontaneous combustion Spontaneous declaration Spontaneous emission Spontaneous fission Spontaneous generation Spontaneous human combustion...
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Lazzaro Spallanzani (section Spontaneous generation)
research on biogenesis paved the way for the downfall of the theory of spontaneous generation, a prevailing idea at the time that organisms develop from inanimate...
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Louis Pasteur (section Spontaneous generation)
Leeuwenhoek). Pasteur was responsible for disproving the doctrine of spontaneous generation. Under the auspices of the French Academy of Sciences, his experiment...
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Goose barnacle (section Spontaneous generation)
leucopsis, were thought to have developed from this crustacean through spontaneous generation, since they were never seen to nest in temperate Europe, hence the...
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Life (section Spontaneous generation)
dust or the supposed seasonal generation of mice and insects from mud or garbage. The theory of spontaneous generation was proposed by Aristotle, who...
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parasitology". He was the first person to challenge the theory of spontaneous generation by demonstrating that maggots come from eggs of flies. Having a...
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development of the germ theory of disease, which put the concept of spontaneous generation to rest. Although the fermentation process had been used extensively...
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Abiogenesis (section Spontaneous generation)
the origin of life, from Aristotle until the 19th century, is of spontaneous generation. This theory held that "lower" animals such as insects were generated...
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Greek word chaos) into the vocabulary of science, and his ideas on spontaneous generation. His name is also found rendered as Jan-Baptiste van Helmont, Johannes...
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