Which of the following experiments suggests that the simplest-living organisms could not have originated spontaneously from non-living matter?
A. Microbes did not appear in stored meat
B. Larvae could appear in decaying organic matter
C. Microbes appeared from unsterilised organic matter
D. Meat was not spoiled, when heated and kept sealed in a vessel
Answer: Option D
Related Questions on Gentics and Evoloution
A piece of DNA molecule that can serve as a carrier for the gene to be cloned is called as a
A. Virus
B. Vector
C. DNA junk
D. Gene factor
A haploid organism contains only one set of chromosomes, and is said to be
A. Homozygous
B. Heterozygous
C. Hemizygous
D. Holozygous
Which of the following is the correct pair?
A. Darwin - Use and disuse of organs
B. de Vries - Mutation theory
C. Lamarck - Origin of life
D. Haldane - Law of heredity

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