Prescott's Microbiology 8th Edition by Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood, Christopher J. Woolverton, Lansing Prescott, John Harley, Donald Klein

Exercise 1

How did Pasteur, Tyndall, and Cohn finally settle the spontaneous generation controversy?

Step 1 of 3

The idea of spontaneous generation is that life can arise from non-living substances. John Needham showed that he could get growth of microorganisms in tightly sealed flasks that contained boiled broth.