In Pasteur's experiment showing that living organisms arise from other living organisms, which one of the following statements most accurately describes Pasteur's hypothesis?
A. Straight-neck flasks allow for more contamination than swan-neck flasks.
B. Sterilization of broth kills microbes.
C. If microbes arise from non-living matter, they should appear spontaneously in sterile broth.
D. Microbes should be capable of growing equally well in sterile broth contained in both straight-neck and swan-neck flasks.
E. The first cells must have come from chemical reactions occurring in early Earth.
Answer: C
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