The Findings of Pasteur and Others Have Established That

question 77

Multiple Choice

The findings of Pasteur and others have established that

• A) living organisms regularly self-assemble (arise spontaneously) from nonliving matter.
• B) living organisms do not arise from nonliving matter today, nor did they arise from nonlife in the past.
• C) advanced organisms cannot arise from nonliving matter, but simple microbial life often does arise from nonlife today.
• D) life does not arise from nonliving matter today, but in the conditions of early Earth, such an event could have occurred.

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