Spontaneous Generation versus Biogenesis In this activity, you will distinguish the theories of spontaneous generation and biogenesis. For each of the following statements, determine whether it refers to the theory of spontaneous generation or to biogenesis. Drag the appropriate items to their respective bins.

Explanation:

Spontaneous generation theory states that life arises from some non-living thing or component. An experiment was carried out where it was believed that maggots arises from a piece of flesh. So, they believe that maggots (living) arises from flesh (maggots).

Theory of biogenesis states that living organisms arises from living organisms.  To support the theory Pateur performed an experiment and proves that living organism arises from living organisms.

allowed for the prediction of the properties of missing elements.