Predict How Pasteur's Conclusions on Spontaneous Generation with Swan Flasks

question 4

Multiple Choice

Predict how Pasteur's conclusions on spontaneous generation with swan flasks would have changed if he worked with and maintained the flasks in a sterile laminar flow hood.

• A) Sterilization of the swan flask solutions would not have been necessary to reject spontaneous generation. If he did sterilize the flasks, the spontaneous generation hypothesis would have been supported.
• B) His incubation times would not have been sufficient to refute spontaneous generation.
• C) Pasteur's flasks never would have putrefied, and the experiment would not have refuted spontaneous generation.
• D) Viruses would have still been present, and his conclusion would have been unchanged.

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