Question

COMPARE: How were the outcomes of Pasteur’s and Redi’s experiments similar?

Both experiments proved that life can come from rotting meat.

Both experiments proved that spontaneous generation occurs.

Both experiments showed that heat kills microorganisms.

Both experiments showed that living things only come from living things.

Answer 1

Both experiments showed that living things only come from living things.

Explanation: Redi showed maggots came from flies (not from rotting meat), and Pasteur showed microbes in broth came from airborne microbes (not generated spontaneously). Both refuted spontaneous generation (biogenesis).