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Curved neck? Spontaneous generation

mrandredparis
in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Picture a colony of bacteria on a tiny bit of dust being blown around in the air. What will be its general direction in the absence of airflow? What causes it to go in that direction? Look which way the tube is pointing in the complete setup.

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Its "general direction" isn't good enough. If even one gets in, it can colonize.

Its "general direction" isn't good enough. If even one gets in, it can colonize.

I think the intact experiment will remain bacteria-free for the length of time it takes for the other one to grow a colony, which I think would be sufficient to illustrate Pasteur's point; indeed it was

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