Question

Answer any of the following:

1. What facts did Redi’s, Spallanzani’s, and Pasteur’s experiments establish?
2. What broader scientific understanding about life did the experiments explore?
3. How does the example of these experiments demonstrate science as a way of knowing?

Answer 1

The facts which Redi’s, Spallanzani’s, and Pasteur’s established are that life ( maggots) has come from flies and all the microorganizms live in the air.
The experiments explore that way of understanding about life : Every form of ife comes from the other life. That is all that I can help you with. Hope that will do.

Answer 2

1. Some explanation of appearance of maggots or some microorganisms on rotten food was the spontaneous generation, meaning there is no parent organism, so these organisms appeared spontaneously.
Redi explained that maggots are from flies, and Spallanzani showed that rotten food is the result of growing populations of microorganisms. Pasteur explained that organisms can live without air. So, their experiments established that there is no spontaneous generation, that maggots are from flies and that microorganisms can live in the air.
2. Therefore, life must come from life.
3. They extrapolated their experiments on other situations.