#spontaneousgeneration

[bobthebiotechquer]

Link : https://sites.google.com/view/bobthebiotechquer/microbiology/history-of-microbiology

B&B - History of Microbiology

In Science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

- Francis Darwin

There are many achievements which were lost in the pages of history, many important contributions unrecognized, overshadowed by the one who "convinced the world" or caught the fancy of an archivist. One of the names in the pages of documented and glorified history of microbiology is Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. Read our #infodump to know what gave him the title of "Father of Microbiology" along with the account of the contributions by many others.

Click on the link above to know more!!

[outaspaceman]

Periodically I like to sift through my collection of precious things I plan to combine in to other even more precious things..😁 I'm currently at one big storage box and a crate. I carefully examine each individual item, assess its utility, take note of form, try to 'see' it in place. I then put everything back knowing exactly what I have and where it is.😉👍 At the bottom of the big storage box I found this amusing little fellow. 🤔...as I don't remember making it I can only assume it generated spontaneously... #thatcanhappen 😐 #spontaneousgeneration #idontremembermakingthis (at Felpham)

[elliebartlets]

Every single time I see one of your Charmed posts on my dash, I feel really old because I was obsessed with it when it was on TV, and I remember exactly what you're talking about. It's crazy haha but I really love it. Please don't stop.

Haha yeah I wish I was old enough to watch it when it was on tv but I was around 2 when it premiered and 10 when it ended and I hadn’t even heard about it until a couple years ago. And don’t worry I love charmed and definitely won’t stop watching it!

[msagostino]

Can living things originate from non-living things?

Recreating Louis Pasteur's famous experiment, students investigated for themselves the theory of spontaneous generation. A dilute nutrient broth was prepared and placed in two flasks. One flask had a straight neck made from glass tubing. The other flask had a swan neck. The nutrient broth was boiled for as long as possible to kill anything that may have landed inside. After a few days students noticed that the flask with the swan neck had not developed any mold or bacterial growth while the straight necked flask was cloudy and full of white colonies. Without bacteria/spores being able to enter the swan necked flask in dust or air, no cells could form. Life cannot arise from non-living matter.