Table 1: Process of Redi's Scientific Investigation

1. Observation: Discovery of flies and maggots on a piece of meat.
- Question: Where did the flies and maggots come from?
- Hypothesis: Are the maggots and flies "related"?

2. Background Information:
- Gather information about the origins of flies and maggots. The year is 1668, and no scientific studies are available. The common belief is that living things, such as flies, can be generated from nonliving things, such as rotting meat. This belief is known as spontaneous generation.

3. Research Question: Does meat spontaneously generate flies and maggots?

4. Hypothesis: If I leave a container of meat open and seal another container, then both should create flies and maggots.

5. Experiment:
- Set up two containers with meat: one will be open, and one will be covered. Leave them for several days.

6. Results:
- Flies and maggots are found in the jar with no cover but not in the covered jar.

7. Analysis:
- Question: Was the reason for no flies in the second jar due to the "bad air" being in the sealed jar, which stopped the flies and maggots from being generated by the meat?

8. Further Experimentation:
- Run the experiment again, adding a third jar with a fine mesh cover.
- Result: Flies and maggots are only found in the open jar.

9. Conclusion:
- Flies lay eggs on the meat, which hatch into maggots, which then become flies.

Summary:
Redi's scientific investigation demonstrates that maggots on meat are the offspring of flies, disproving the theory of spontaneous generation for this scenario.