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DO Flies come from rotten meat because they always appear where meat is rotting?
Flies are attracted to meat and will lay eggs on the meat, where they quickly hatch into maggots. But the flies are not indigenous to the meat.
Why was the gauze important in redi's experiment?
Redi used a jar, meat and gauze. The gauze kept the flies off the meat. Redi's hypothesis was that if you kept flies away from the meat, maggots would not appear, because the flies did not lay eggs on the meat.
Do flies have meat in them?
no it doesnt
Can a nonliving thing create a living thing like can rotting meat create flies?
Rotting meat doesn't create flies. Rotting meat attracts flies that lay their eggs on the meat. These eggs hatch and maggots emerge and proceed to feed off the rotten meat. After a period as a chrysalis, the maggots change and emerge as adult flies.
Why are flies attracted to rotten meat?
because they always appear where meat is rotting
Why do flies often lay eggs on spoiled meat?
Flies will often lay eggs on spoiled meat because they are attracted to the smell of the meat. The meat will provide a place for the eggs to incubate and also a source of food once the larvae hatch.
Who proved that the flies that developed on raw meat did not come from the meat?
In the 1600's, the Italian scientist Francisco Redi performed experiments that showed that flies did not spontaneously generate from raw meat.
What the name of the organism that produces maggots in the meat?
Flies dude. Lots of flies.
Scientist who experimented with meat and flies?
redi?
Does rotten meat produce flies?
Yes, if flies lay eggs in exposed rotting meat their larva will feed themselves until developed and then turn into new flies. If the rotting meat is not exposed the flies will not be able to lay eggs and there will be no emerging flies.
Why do some flowers smell like rotting meat?
Those flowers are pollinated by flies, which are attracted to the smell of rotting meat. Yuck.
Who was the Doctor that showed maggots hatch from eggs that flies lay on meat and not from the meat itself was?
Pasteur
