What hypothesis did Pasteur make to test?

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If flies can come from rotting meat, then they will appear on covered meat.

If flies can come from rotting meat, then they will appear on covered meat.

If cells can appear in sterile broth, then cells can only develop from living things.
If cells can appear in sterile broth, then cells can only develop from living things.

If cells can develop from non-living things, then cells can appear in sterile broth.

If cells can develop from non-living things, then cells can appear in sterile broth.

If flies can only come from flies, then they will not appear on covered meat.

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The hypothesis that Pasteur made to test is:

If cells can only develop from living things, then cells will not appear in sterile broth.

This hypothesis was part of his experiments to disprove the idea of spontaneous generation, demonstrating that microbes come from other microbes and not from non-living matter.