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Spontaneous Generation

By Janice VanCleave

Spontaneous generation was the idea that living things could be produced by non-living things. Those who promoted this idea based it on observations, but they did not experiment to test their ideas. Following are examples of observations leading to the idea of spontaneous generation. 1. Observation: Farmers found mice in moldy grain. Conclusion: Moldy grain […]

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