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Lazzaro Spallanzani ( January 10, 1729 - February 12, 1799) was an Italian biologist. He was born in Modena and died in Pavia, Italy. Spallanzani was educated at the Jesuit College of Reggio, and started to study law at the University of Bologna, which he gave up soon and turned to science. At the age of 25, he became professor of logic, metaphysics, and Greek in the University of Reggio. He made many expeditions throughout Europe, including Switzerland and TurkeyTurkey (officially the Republic of Turkey Turkish Turkiye is a country located in Southwest Asia with a small part in southeastern Europe. Until 1922 the country was the center of the Ottoman Empire. The Anatolian peninsula, between the Black Sea and the.

Spallanzani researched and disproved the theory about the spontaneous generation of cellular lifestained for keratin The cell is the structural and functional unit of all living organisms. Some organisms, such as bacteria, are unicellular, consisting of a single cell. Other organisms, such as humans, are multicellular, (humans have an estimated 100,0 in 1768. His experiment proved that microbes come from the air, and that they could be killed through boiling. This work paved the way for later research by Louis PasteurLouis Pasteur ( December 27 1822 September 28 1895) was a French microbiologist and chemist who advocated the germ theory of disease and developed techniques of inoculation. Louis Pasteur was born in Dole, Jura departement France, the son of a tanner..

Lazzaro also discovered and described animal ( mammalSubclass Monotremata Monotremata Subclass Marsupialia Didelphimorphia Paucituberculata Microbiotheria Dasyuromorphia Peramelemorphia Notoryctemorphia Diprotodontia Subclass Placentalia Xenarthra Dermoptera Desmostylia Scandentia Primates Rodentia Lagomorp) reproduction, requiering semenSemen or ejaculate is the fluid discharged from the penis during ejaculation, usually at the time of orgasm. Like blood, semen consists of two compartments, the cellular compartment spermatozoa , and noncellular compartment seminal plasma . Thus, it conta and an ovumFor the video-related acronym, see OVA. An ovum (or loosely, egg or egg cell is a female sex cell or gamete. Both animals and seed plants have ova. The term ovule is used for the ovum of seed plants and for the young ovum of an animal. The word is derived. He was the first to perform an artificial insemination, using a dog. Spallanzani showed that some animals, especially lizards, can regenerate some parts of their body if injured or surgically removed.

See also: biogenesis.

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