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104 Redi
Question | Answer |
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Francesco Redi - | A scientist Lived in the 1600s Italian Disproved spontaneous generation |
putrefaction - | decomposition rotting related word: putrefying |
maggots - | larvae of flies |
larvae - | The newly hatched, wingless, often wormlike form of many insects pronounced LAR vee this is plural, meaning more than one singular is larva |
spontaneous generation - | The belief that life could arise from nonliving matter For instance, it was believed that maggots could grow out of meat |
fly eggs - | very tiny when flies landed on meat and laid them, people didn't notice |
controlled experiment - | an experiment with two groups one is not exposed to the independent variable the other is |
Significance of Redi's experiment - | one of the first controlled experiments in the history of biology disproved spontaneous generation, at least for flies |
flask - | bottle that has a narrow neck |
Redi's experiment - | compared covered and uncovered jars with meat in them to see if maggots would appear Maggots appeared in the uncovered jar Maggots did not appear in the uncovered jar |