Question

1) in 1658. Francesco Redi wanted to know if meat could spontaneously produce maggots as many
people thought at the time. Redi believed that the maggots came from flies that lay eggs on the
rotting mest. He placed one piece of meat in a jar and covered it with cloth. He left another piece
of mest in a jar uncovered. After two weeks, he inspected the meat and found that the one in the
covered ar did not have maggots, but the one open to the air did have maggots.
If maggots were spontaneously being produced by the meat, then ....​

Answer 1

Answer:

In 1668, Francesco Redi, an Italian scientist, designed a scientific experiment to test the spontaneous creation of maggots by placing fresh meat in each of two different jars. ... Redi successfully demonstrated that the maggots came from fly eggs and thereby helped to disprove spontaneous generation.