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A spontaneou generation is the idea that organisms originate directly from nonliving matter
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The ideas that life can arise from nonliving matter is called?
The idea that life can arise from nonliving matter is called spontaneous generation.
What is the idea of living things coming from non-living things called?
spontaneous generation
What is the mistaken idea that living organisms?
Spontaneous generation
What is meant by the idea of spontaneous generation?
A spontaneous generation is one that does not think before they do things. More often than not this is a bad thing.
Why is spontaneous generation a mistaken idea?
IT TOOK HUNDRED OF YEARS OF EXPERIMENTS TO CONVINCE PEOPLE THAT SPONTANEOUS GENERATION DEOS NOT OCCUR. i'm not lieing :)
Who were the two early scientists whose experiments helped disprove the idea of spontaneous generation?
Redi and Pasteur helped to disprove spontaneous generation.
What is the idea of spontaneous generation about?
Spontaneous Generation was the idea that life spontaneously arose from rotten food. For example, if I left a hamburger outside for a couple days and maggots began to cover it, during the time period that spontaneous generation was accepted, I would have believed that the maggots came from nothing.
What is the idea that life can arise from nonliving matter called?
That is called CREATION. This is unlike spontaneous generation where you add water to dirt, get mud, and the frogs!
How did Redi's experiment help disprove the idea of spontaneous generation?
His experiment disproved spontaneous generation by showing that maggots don't arise from decayed meat.
What two scientist's helped to disprove the idea of spontaneous generation?
Redi and Pasteur
How has spontaneous generation been used to help protect your food?
spontaneous generation means the mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources. so it has nothing to do with protecting your food.
Compare spontaneous generation and biogenesis?
bogenisis-theory that living things come only from other living things . spontaneous generation-idea that living things come from nonliving things.
