PART 2:LOUIS PASTEUR;1860

Question 1

What did Pasteur do in the 1860s?

Answer 1

In 1860s, the FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCE set a challenge for scientists, 👨‍🔬👨‍🔬to prove the theory of spontaneous generation 🤔🤔

Question 2

What did Pasteur instead do?

Answer 2

He carried out different investigations and published his results

Question 3

What was Pasteur’s experiment?

Answer 3

If he left a mixture EXPOSED to the air=it would go BAD=microscopes showed microbes were PRESENT🦠

HOWEVER

If he HEATED the mixture=stopped air entering=the mixture did NOT go bad

Question 4

What did Pasteur’s experiments prove?

Answer 4

PROVED microbes were IN THE AIR and caused DECAY, this idea became KNOWN as the GERM theory