______ demonstrated that life comes only from preexisting life.
Aristotle
Louis Pasteur
Oparin and Haldane
None of the above
As discussed in the Meaning of Evolution -
Louis Pasteur by careful experimentation demonstrated that life comes only from preexisting life. He showed that in pre-sterilized flasks, life did not come from killed yeast while in another flask open to the air, new living organisms arose from ‘killed yeast’. Hence, the correct option is (b).