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Louis Pasteur's experiments, if you recall, proved that life can arise from only pre-existing life. Can we correct this as life evolves from pre-existent life or otherwise, we will never answer the question as to how the first forms of life arose? Comment.

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In this experiment, Louis Pasteur used two flasks - a sterilised flask and another flask which was open to the air. Killed yeast did not produce a new organism in a sterilised flask, while new organisms were found in the second flask. This experiment helped in rejecting the theory of spontaneous generation.

Later Miller showed through an experiment, that organic molecules could develop from inorganic molecules, which can eventually lead to the origin of life. So, Miller's experiment could provide a correction to Pasteur's observation.

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