Evolution Question 45
45. Which one of the following experiments suggests that simplest living organisms could not have originated spontaneously from nonliving matter?
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(a) Larvae could appear in decaying organic matter.
(b) Microbes did not appear in stored meat
(c) Microbes appeared from unsterilized organic matter
(d) Meat was not spoiled, when heated and kept sealed in a vessel.
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Answer : d
Hints & Solution
(d) Spallanzani’s experiment: He boiled the meat and vegetables for more than an hour to prepare broth and placed them in open and sealed flasks. The maggots of housefly developed in the open flasks but did not appear in sealed flasks. This disapproved the theory of spontaneous creation. (Th. of abiogenesis).
