IMMUNOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Francesco Redi, (born Feb. 18, 1626, Arezzo, Italy-died March 1, 1697, Pisa), Italian physician and poet who demonstrated that the presence of maggots in putrefying meat does not result from spontaneous generation but from eggs laid on the meat by flies.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -People believed that maggots arose in rotting meat through spontaneous generation. Francesco Redi was one of the first scientists to methodically test this idea, using the scientific method, in 1668. Redi’s hypothesis was that flies laid eggs on the rotting meat, and maggots developed from those eggs.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1684, Redi published a book called Observations on living animals that are in living animals where he included drawings of over 100 parasites and the locations they were found. The theory of spontaneous generation states living organisms arose from nonliving material and was a widely accepted theory.

Detailed explanation-5: -Experimentation by Francesco Redi in the 17th century presented the first significant evidence refuting spontaneous generation by showing that flies must have access to meat for maggots to develop on the meat.

Detailed explanation-6: -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. One jar was left open; the other was covered with a cloth.

Detailed explanation-7: -Franceso Redi was an Italian naturalist who challenged the ancient belief of spontaneous generation of maggots on decaying meat in 1668.