Who explained first that a new life can arise only from pre-existing life?

Louis Pasteur

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Oparin and Haldane

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S.L. Milner

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Charles Darwin

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The correct option is A Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur first demonstrated that life comes only from pre-existing life. He showed that in pre-sterilized flasks, life did not come from killed yeast while in another flask open to air, new living organisms arose from ‘killed yeast’.

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