Francesco Redi showed that microorganisms are present in air thereby disproving the idea of spontaneous generation and is denoted as option B.
This is supposed production of living organisms from non living substances.
The jar was left open and had maggots in it means the flies laid their eggs which later turned to the maggot which was what Redi observed during the experiment.
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