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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
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