Spontaneous Generation Proved Wrong

Do you ever wonder if living organisms can produce from nonliving matter in the blink of an eye? In the year of 1668, many people believed that exact same thing could happen to produce living organisms. However, that scientific theory was later proved wrong in 1859.

In the 1600’s through the 1800’s, a scientist created a experiment to produce mice. That experiment was to place a slightly dirty shirt and a few wheat grains in an open pot. Then you wait three weeks for this experiment to become successful. Did this experiment work? Absolutely! But how is the question? Spontaneous generation is the supposed development of living organisms from non living matter, but is that the real reason why the mice were produced in the open pot with a dirty shirt and wheat grains in it?

The answer to mice producing in the pot wouldn’t be logical to scientists if the blame was spontaneous generation. Because spontaneous generation produces living organisms from nonliving matter it wouldn’t be the answer. Mice are attracted to unclean things. Which would make them attracted to the shirt since it was not clean. However there just wasn’t a dirty shirt in the pot, there was also a few of wheat grains in there to, which mice love to eat. For the experiment to work, mice were just attracted to the pot and decided to burrow into the shirt and produce baby mice, including themselves to. Therefore spontaneous generation was not the answer to the mice developing in the pot.

Spontaneous generation was shortly proved incorrect in 1859. Now that you have wondered about spontaneous generation, you also know the facts about it too. Not any living thing can produce by itself with nonliving matter.