How to Use spontaneous generation in a Sentence
spontaneous generation
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In fact, cells that generate their own cilia without centrioles or deuterosomes already have a name: de novo, basically meaning spontaneous generation.
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Caroline Delbert,
Popular Mechanics,
2019-12-30
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By the late 19th century, writes Encyclopedia Britannica, scientists had ceased to believe that, for instance, cheese could spontaneously generate mice, but spontaneous generation at the microbial level was still accepted.
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Kat Eschner,
Smithsonian,
2017-06-13
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