In 1864, he published the results of his experiments that disproved spontaneous generation and the presence of a life force. His famous quote is: “Life is a germ, and a germ is Life. Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow of this simple experiment

The current thought on the structure of the cell membrane is: a. a static phosphate sandwich of lipids b. a fluid-mosaic of phospholipids and proteins c. a bilayer of proteins with static lipid molecules d. an impermeable bilayer of protein molecules e. a static and permeable phospholipid single layer