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Question
Answer the following question.
State the two principal outcomes of the experiments conducted by Louis Pasteur on the origin of life.
Solution
Louis Pasteur by careful experimentation demonstrated that:
- Life comes only from pre-existing life.
- In pre-sterilized flasks, life did not come from killed yeast while in another flask open to the air; new organisms arose from killed yeast.
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