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The term hot dilute soup was used by

  • Haldane
  • von Helmont
  • Redi
  • Louis Pasteur
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J B S Haldane (1920), the Indian scientist born in England, termed the Primordial soup as the hot dilute soup of organic substances The earths temperature was still too high to allow Origin of life in this soup which is, never the less regarded as the Prebiotic soup. In 17th century, abiogenesis theory was reported by von Helmont (1642), who claimed that mice formed in 21 days from a dirty sweat soaked shirt put in a wheat barnin dark. Francisco Redi (1668), an Italian scientist was first to put forward experimented refutation of the concept of spontaneous generation. Louis Pasteur $(1806 -1862)$, a French scientist is known as Father of immunology and credited with the Germ theory of disease.
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