MENDEL’S LAWS OF INHERITANCE AND EXCEPTIONS TO THE LAWS , Louis Pasteur (1800s)
MENDEL’S LAWS OF INHERITANCE AND EXCEPTIONS TO THE LAWS History :- The assertion that life can instantaneously arise from non living matter is called spontaneous generation. Here are the critical experiments that busted the myth. Although today we understand that living things arise from other living things, the idea of spontaneous generation was entrenched in the minds of man throughout most of history. Spontaneous generation is the belief that, on a daily basis, living things arise from non living material. This debunked belief is not the same as abiogenesis, the study of how life on earth could have arisen from inanimate matter billions of years ago. Aristotle and Spontaneous Generation (383-322) Aristotle was one of the first to record his conclusions on the possible routes to life. He saw beings as arising in one of three ways, from sexual reproduction, asexual reproduction or nonliving matter. According to Aristotle, it was readily observable that aphids ar...
