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Biogenesis |
Principle that states that all living things come from other living things |
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Spontaneous Generation |
Widely thought idea that states that living things could come from non-living things |
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Redi's Experiment |
Put meat in a open and closed jar to test the theory of spontaneous generation. Results disproved the theory |
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Spallanzani's Experiment |
Put broth into an open flask and boiled it to see if microorganisms would appear in the open flask. Sealed the other flask to see if spontaneous generation existed. Results disproved the theory |
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Pasteur's Experiment |
Put broth into a curved neck flask and boiled it. The results disproved the theory |
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How was the Earth formed? |
Gas, dust, and debris smashed into each other repeated times to form planets around the newly formed sun |
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Radiometric dating |
A method of determining the absolute age of an object by comparing the relative percentages of a radioactive isotope and a stable isotope |
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Oparin/Haldane hypothesis |
Thought that the atmosphere contained multiple gases, at high temperatures these gases might have formed simple organic compounds |
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Miller/Urey Experiment |
Test |