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Francesco Redi conducted an experiment in 1668 to test the idea of spontaneous generation, which was the belief that living things could come from nonliving things. He placed meat in jars, with some covered by cloth and others uncovered, and observed that maggots only appeared in the uncovered jars where flies could lay eggs. His experiment provided evidence against spontaneous generation and supported the conclusion that maggots came from fly eggs rather than spontaneously generating from decaying meat.

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Introduction To The Scientific Method Worksheet: Questions

Francesco Redi conducted an experiment in 1668 to test the idea of spontaneous generation, which was the belief that living things could come from nonliving things. He placed meat in jars, with some covered by cloth and others uncovered, and observed that maggots only appeared in the uncovered jars where flies could lay eggs. His experiment provided evidence against spontaneous generation and supported the conclusion that maggots came from fly eggs rather than spontaneously generating from decaying meat.

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Introduction to the Scientific Method Worksheet

Long ago, many people believed that living things could come from nonliving things. They thought
that worms came from wood and that maggots came from decaying meat. This idea was called
spontaneous generation. In 1668, an Italian biologist, Francesco Redi, did experiments to prove that
maggots did not come from meat. One of his experiments is shown below.

Redi placed pieces of meat in several jars. He divided the jars into two groups. He covered the first
group of jars with fine cloth. He left the second group of jars uncovered. Redi observed the jars for
several days. He saw flies on the cloth of the covered jars, and he saw flies laying eggs on the meat in
the uncovered jars. Maggots appeared only on the meat in the group of jars left uncovered.

Questions
1. Scientists use a series of organized steps called scientific method to solve problems. List the steps
that are often used.

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2. What was the problem in Redi’s experiment?

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3. What do you think his hypothesis was?

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4. How did he test his hypothesis?

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5. What was the variable in his experiment?

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6. What was the control in his experiment?

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7. What do you think Redi’s conclusion was.?

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