Louis Pasteur and scientific breakthroughs
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Name a historic scientific breakthrough and explain how scientific reasoning, the components of creativity and critical thinking played a role in the final breakthrough.
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Describes Louis Pasteur's famous experiments testing the theory of spontaneous generation and how these experiments exemplified critical thinking, creativity, and scientific reasoning.
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One scientific breakthrough I've always admired was Louis Pasteur's scientific experiments proving once and for all that living things are not created by spontaneous generation.
Before Pasteur did these experiments, it was widely believed that organisms were spontaneously generated; for instance, that rotting meat somehow produced maggots, or that stored grain somehow produced mice. Pasteur wasn't buying this. He did a series of brilliant experiments where he created special glass bottles with ...
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