Spontaneous generation
Pasteur's broth stayed sterile in flasks open to air through an S-shaped neck that trapped dust. The refutation of everyday spontaneous generation left the deeper origin-of-life question in place.
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Closed 1859–1862, Louis Pasteur's swan-neck flask experiments.
Related problems
- The original curation links this problem to The origin of life; the argument for the link has not been written yet.
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The original curation links this problem to The origin of life; the argument for the link has not been written yet.
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