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BIOLOGY ONE – EVOLUTION

SPONTANEOUS GENERATION – READING HANDOUT

EVOLUTION-1

PRE READING –

1. What do I think I am going to encounter in this reading? What can I learn from it?

2. How do I feel about the scientific investigation of how life on Earth began?

Read the information on the following link thoroughly to answer the questions below. http://www.bact.wisc.edu/Microtextbook/index.php?module=Book&func=displayarticle&art_id=27

DURING THE READING -

1. What questions come to mind while I am reading this? (I must be aware of what I am asking myself as I read…)

POST READING -

1. Summarize the reading in a sentence.

2. What is spontaneous generation?

3. Why did some people believe that the rotting meat supported spontaneous generation?

4. Explain Redi’s experiment in detail.

5. Thoroughly explain Needham’s experiment. (Use this link for additional information: http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio114/spontgen.htm)

6. What did Spallanzani do to disprove spontaneous generation?

7. How did Pasteur prove that life must come from life?

8. Does the evidence that eventually disproved spontaneous generation seem to be correct? Why or why not?