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Explain the hypothesis of spontaneous generation

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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was the first one to observe protozoans that he called “animalcules” using his simple magnifying lenses. Scientists and philosophers in Antoni’s time used the spontaneous generation hypothesis to explain the origin of the “animalcules”.

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