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Biogenesis

Principle that states that all living things come from other living things

Spontaneous Generation

Widely thought idea that states that living things could come from non-living things

Redi's Experiment

Put meat in a open and closed jar to test the theory of spontaneous generation. Results disproved the theory

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

Pasteur's Experiment

Put broth into a curved neck flask and boiled it. The results disproved the theory

How was the Earth formed?

Gas, dust, and debris smashed into each other repeated times to form planets around the newly formed sun

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

Oparin/Haldane hypothesis

Thought that the atmosphere contained multiple gases, at high temperatures these gases might have formed simple organic compounds

Miller/Urey Experiment

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