Final Answer:
1. nonliving matter
2. spontaneous generation
3. Francesco Redi
4. disproved
5. microscope
6. microorganisms
7. spontaneously
8. Louis Pasteur
9. S-shaped
10. air
11. organisms
12. broth
13. organisms
14. biogenesis
15. False. Biogenesis does *not* explain how life began on Earth; it states that life arises only from pre-existing life. The origin of the *first* life is still unknown and studied under abiogenesis, not biogenesis.
→ Corrected: Biogenesis does not explain how life began on Earth.
16. True. (This statement aligns with current scientific understanding of abiogenesis — simple inorganic molecules forming organic ones, then organizing into more complex structures.)
17. True. (Billions of years ago, Earth’s early atmosphere lacked free oxygen and methane was likely scarce or absent before life produced it; methane is a biosignature gas largely generated by living organisms today.)
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