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Francesco Redi was an Italian physician and naturalist who proved maggots come from flies. He was the first scientist to challenge the theory of spontaneous generation.

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Q: What scientist performed an experiment with results that provided evidence that flies come from maggots concluding that the theory of spontaneous generation was NOT true for flies?
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