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In the 1600's, the Italian scientist Francisco Redi performed experiments that showed that flies did not spontaneously generate from raw meat.

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What did Redi prove in his experiment?

Redi's experiment proved that maggots do not spontaneously generate from decaying meat, but rather come from the eggs of flies. This refuted the prevailing theory of spontaneous generation.


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.


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.


What did redi's experiment prove that maggots did not come from?

Redi's experiment proved that maggots did not spontaneously generate from decaying meat, contradicting the popular belief of spontaneous generation at the time.


What was Redi's theory?

Redi's theory, known as spontaneous generation, proposed that living organisms could arise from nonliving matter. In his famous experiment with the meat and fly larvae, Redi demonstrated that maggots do not spontaneously generate on rotting meat but instead come from eggs laid by flies. This experiment helped to disprove the idea of spontaneous generation.


Do flies have meat in them?

no it doesnt


What did Francesco Redi discover?

Francesco Redi did an experiment in 1668 that disproved a belief that maggots spontaneously generated on rotting meat. His experiment was to place meat into sets of jars: one set he left open to the air, one set he covered with very fine gauze, one set was completely sealed. Maggots appeared on the meat in the open jars; flies laid eggs on the gauze but no maggots appeared because the scent of rotting meat provides no nourishment; nothing appeared on the meat in the completely sealed jars. Redi believed in spontaneous generation of many things, just not fly maggots. He is credited with beginning the experiments using controls method used now.


How is the corpse flower mutualistic?

Flies come to it because of the smell hoping to find some rotting meat and when they land on the flower they pollinate it


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.


What did Francesco Redi do dealing with evolution?

Redi did an experiment seeing what maggots come from by putting meat into jars and left 1 open 1 covered with netting and one sealed the only one that didn't get maggots was the one that was sealed proving that maggots come from flies.


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.


Which is the artificial meat developed in Netherlends?

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