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Can life arise from non-life? The question I have just asked was actually a belief of everyone from regular people to scientists in the 4th century. Those who lived in that time believed that rats were created by garbage in the street, frogs were given life from muddy banks along the riverside, and rotting meat produced flies. There were no studies, no experiments, no way of knowing otherwise. The term spontaneous generation, which was the idea that organisms originate directly from nonliving matter, was indeed law. Then some scientist became suspicious, they started to question if it was possible, could spontaneous generation truly occur? These scientist tried different experiments to answer their questionable thoughts. Among those was