The theory of spontaneous generation was refuted by the work of
A) Louis Pasteur.
B) Robert Koch.
C) Robert Hooke.
D) Antoni van Leeuwenhoek.

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Louis Pasteur conducted experiments in the 1860s that definitively disproved the theory of spontaneous generation. He demonstrated that microorganisms do not arise spontaneously from non-living matter, but rather come from preexisting microorganisms. Robert Koch, Robert Hooke, and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek all made significant contributions to the field of microbiology, but their work did not directly disprove the theory of spontaneous generation.

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