Prescott's Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 1.3, Problem 1.1RIA
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1. What does the theory of spontaneous generation propose? How did Pasteur, Tyndall, and Cohn finally settle the spontaneous generation controversy?
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