AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Redi went on to demonstrate that dead maggots or flies would not generate new flies when placed on rotting meat in a sealed jar, whereas live maggots or flies would. This disproved both the existence of some essential component in once-living organisms, and the necessity of fresh air to generate life.

Detailed explanation-2: -Francesco Redi’s experimental setup consisted of an open container, a container sealed with a cork top, and a container covered in mesh that let in air but not flies. Maggots only appeared on the meat in the open container. However, maggots were also found on the gauze of the gauze-covered container.

Detailed explanation-3: -Redi successfully demonstrated that the maggots came from fly eggs and thereby helped to disprove spontaneous generation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Redi’s experiment proved that life, maggots, from non life, meat, was superstition. propagandizing the ancient Greek spontaneous generation superstitions of 2, 300 years earlier. Figure 2. Pasteur’s experiments proved that microorganisms come from life, not non life.