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THE SLOW DEATH OF SPONTANEOUS GENERATION
1. Why is Redi's experiment considered the first true scientific
experiment?
2. What is the independent variable in his experiment? What is the
dependent variable?
3. Explain why even after Redi's
experiment people were still not
convinced that spontaneous generation was a fallacy.
4. Outline Spallanzi's experimental design.
a.
the experimental group-
b.
The control group-
c. independent
d.
Include:
variable-
dependent variable-
5. What did Spallanzi conclude from his results?
6.
Spallanzi results still did not convince Needham that there was no life
force available to create life spontaneously. According to Needham,
how did Spallanzi "over do it" thereby destroying the life force?
7. This debate over spontaneous generation
was very controversial. One
man ended the controversy. Who was that tremendous, stupendous,
fabulous scientist?
8. Outline the tremendous, stupendous, fabulous scientist's experiment.
a. the experimental group-
b.
The control group-
c. independent variabled.
9.
dependent variable-
What was the key piece of equipment in his experiment? Why was it
so crucial to finding the answer?
1O.What did he conclude from his experiment?
11.This guy, the tremendous, stupendous, fabulous scientist, was so
tremendous, stupendous and fabulous for several reasons. One, he
used the scientific method, two, he performed a controlled
experiment. What was the third reason why he is so tsfl