Nature of Science and Biogenesis

Set up an experiment using boiled meat broth and flasks/beakers

• Lazzaro Spallanzani

• Francesco Redi

• Stanley Miller and Harold Urey

• Louis Pasteur

Determined that flies come from other flies, not rotting meat

• Lazzaro Spallanzani

• Francesco Redi

• Stanley Miller and Harold Urey

• Louis Pasteur

The scientist who finally disproved the theory of spontaneous generation using meat broth in a curve necked flask

• Lazzaro Spallanzani

• Francesco Redi

• Stanley Miller and Harold Urey

• Louis Pasteur

A scientist who showed that bacteria was not a product of vital forces in the air

• Lazzaro Spallanzani

• Francesco Redi

• Stanley Miller and Harold Urey

• Louis Pasteur

Conducted his experiment in response to a contest offered by the Paris Academy of Science

• Lazzaro Spallanzani

• Francesco Redi

• Stanley Miller and Harold Urey

• Louis Pasteur

 A scientist who disproved that flies spontaneously generate from rotting meat

• Lazzaro Spallanzani

• Francesco Redi

• Stanley Miller and Harold Urey

• Louis Pasteur

Used flasks with a long curved neck to let air in, but not microorganisms

• Lazzaro Spallanzani

• Francesco Redi

• Stanley Miller and Harold Urey

• Louis Pasteur

Tried to show how organic matter could have spontaneously generated in Earth’s primitive atmosphere

• Lazzaro Spallanzani

• Francesco Redi

• Stanley Miller and Harold Urey

• Louis Pasteur

Conducted his experiment around the same time that microscopes were first becoming popular with scientists

• Lazzaro Spallanzani

• Francesco Redi

• Stanley Miller and Harold Urey

• Louis Pasteur

Worked to disprove spontaneous generation

• Lazzaro Spallanzani

• Francesco Redi

• Stanley Miller and Harold Urey

• Louis Pasteur