Unit 1 Lab 1

Unit 1 Lab 1: The Scientific Method Summary
Liliya Dudik

Maggots

Where do maggots come from? Are they a self-born, spontaneous generation or are they mothered by something or someone? I actually asked myself that question numerous times while finding maggots on few things myself. I also wonder the same about fruit flies. Seems like as soon as I buy fruits, fruit flies fill my house almost the same day while all windows and doors closed. This experiment of maggots was quiet fun and put my personal hypothesis to rest.
The point of this experiment is to disprove the spontaneous generation of maggots on meat. Could flies be responsible for maggot formation? Hypothesis is that they are. So, the experiment is set up to see if no maggots, in fact, will form without flies. For the experiment, two clean jars are set out on a clean board. Then I put mean into both jars, closed one jar with a tight seal but left the other one open, exposed to air and flies for four days. In the process of four days, observing both jars, meat in both jars was rotting, flies visited the meat that wasn’t protected. At the end of 4 days, I learned that the jar that was closed and protected from flies didn’t have maggots, while the other one that was exposed to air and flies visited the meat - had maggots.
In this experiment of meat and maggots, the conclusion is that flies are responsible for maggot formation on rotting meat.