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Explain how the results of Pasteur’s S-shaped tube experiment was important in disproving spontaneous generation and how it supported the idea that cells come from preexisting cells

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Nothing grew in the broths unless the flasks were broken open, showing that the living organisms that grew in such broths came from outside, as spores on dust, rather than spontaneously generated within the broth. This was one of the last and most important experiments disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.

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