Question

How did Pasteur’s famous experiment defeat the theory of spontaneous generation ?

Answer 1

Louis Pasteur designed an experimentto test whether sterile nutrient broth could spontaneously generate microbial life. To do this, he set up twoexperiments. In both, Pasteur added nutrient broth to flasks, bent the necks of the flasks into S shapes, and then boiled the broth to kill any existing microbes.