What is the idea of spontaneous generation?

A. Life comes from other living things

B. Life comes from reproduction of biotic things

C. Life comes from non-living things like the air

C. Life comes from non-living things like the air. Also known as anomalous generation, this idea is based on pre-Aristotelian philosophers that believed that organisms such as mites could be formed from non-living things such as dust. Some of these ideas were adopted into Christianity and the most famous modern tests to test this theory were performed by Pasteur.