Do microbes form from other microbe, or are microbes able to spontaneously regenerate? This was a question was being asked by many people at the time. Many scientist set out to prove their beliefs by running test prove either theory right or wrong.
Do cells spontaneously regenerate? This was the question at hand when Redi ran his experiment. He noticed maggots started forming on meat that had been sitting out. He did not believe that the flies were formed from the meat. To test his hypothesis, he used three jars of meat. The first jar was totally uncovered, the second jar had a netted top, and the third was totally sealed. After a couple of days of observation, he notice the first jar had flies and maggots in the jar and on the meat. The second jar had maggots in the net but not on the meat. The third jar had no maggots or flies on the jar at all. At the end of the experiment he concluded that cells do not spontaneously generate.
This experiment was pretty straight- forward. There really are not to many things I would change except for the number of jars used. I would have only used two jars, one covered, and the other totally sealed. He would have concluded with same results.
Pasteur’s experiment was performed after Redi’s. Some people thought that Redi’ experiment was not enough. Many thought that the idea of spontaneous generation was still possible when only including smaller microbes, though it may not apply to larger microorganism. Pasteur’s experiment was organized to give a definitive answer to the cell generation question. His hypothesis on his experiment was that if cells could form spontaneously then they should appear spontaneously in the broth after they are
