6. How did the experiments of
Redi and Pasteur refute the
hypothesis of spontaneous
generation?

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To refute the spontaneous
hypothesis many experiments were
. Francisco Redi, in 1668,
that maggots appeared on
only when there was to the
environment; within
environments, they did not . In
1862, Louis Pasteur with
swanneck flasks refuted abiogenesis
hypothesis definitively. In
experiment Pasteur demonstrated that
(to kill microorganisms) nutritive
put in swan-neck flasks ( a
curved down mouth microorganisms
could not enter ) did not
contaminate with while
the same soups flasks with open
upwards were contaminated in
a days. The fact that flasks
were open refuted argument of the
vitalists the vital elan could
enter the flasks. Pasteur the
swan-necks of the to demonstrate
that proliferation microorganism
could happen if beings were able
to the broth.