Francesco Redi experimentally proved .

biogenesis

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Solution

The correct option is A biogenesis
The theory of biogenesis states that complex living things come only from other living things, by reproduction. That is, life does not arise from nonliving material, which was the position held by the theory of spontaneous generation.

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Column I	Column II
A. Francesco Redi	(i) Theory of chemical evolution of life
B. L. Pasteur	(ii) Disproval of spontaneous generation
C. Richter	(iii) Swan necked flask experiment
D. Oparin	(iv) Mutation
	(v) Panspermia