Spontaneous generation was finally disproved by
A) Stanley Miller.
B) Harold Urey.
C) Francesco Redi and Louis Pasteur.
D) Allan Hills.
E) Johannes van der Waals.

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Spontaneous generation was finally disproved by Francesco Redi and Louis Pasteur through their experiments on the origin of life. Redi demonstrated that maggots did not arise spontaneously from decaying meat but were instead the offspring of flies. Pasteur showed that microorganisms did not arise spontaneously in nutrient broths but were instead introduced from outside sources. Stanley Miller and Harold Urey conducted the famous Miller-Urey experiment to simulate the conditions of early Earth and demonstrate the synthesis of organic molecules, but this did not disprove spontaneous generation. Allan Hills and Johannes van der Waals did not contribute to the study of the origin of life or spontaneous generation.

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