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State the contribution of Louis Pasteur in understanding the origin of life on earth. Explain the procedure that he followed to arrive at his conclusion.

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Louis Pasteur dismissed the theory of spontaneous generation and demonstrated that life came from pre-existing life. He took two long-necked flasks. He left one flask with a straight neck and the other was bent to from an ‘S’ shape. He put sterile broths in both the flasks. He placed killed yeast in pre-sterilised bent flask and the other flask was left open to air. 

After several weeks he observed that the straight neck flask was discoloured and cloudy, while the curved flask had not changed. Thus he concluded that the germs in air were able to fall unobstructed down the straight necked flask while they got trapped in the curved flask.

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