THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

Question 1

what are the steps of scientific method?

Answer 1

1. Define the problem
2. Collect and organize information
3. Form a hypothesis
4. Test the hypothesis - EXPERIMENT
5. Observe a record/Organizing Data
6. Drawing conclusions

Question 2

a belief that living organisms could develop from non-living materials

Answer 2

Spontaneous Generation

Question 3

• to disprove the belief that flies comes from decaying meat
• he believed that flies developed from eggs laid by other flies

Answer 3

Francesco Redi

Question 4

prove that microorganisms develop from boiled mutton (lamb) broth,

Answer 4

John Needham

Question 5

• challenged Needham’s result
• opened the jars and exposed them to microorganisms and showed that microorganisms grew well in the jars that were boiled longer

Answer 5

Lazzaro Spallanzi

Question 6

• the swan-neck flask experiment
• father of the bacteriology

Answer 6

Louis Pasteur

Question 7

some traits which are commonly attributed to scientists

Answer 7

• curiosity
• creativity
• objectivity
• open-mindedness
• critical outlook
• analytical thinking
• logical thinking
• strong power of concentration
• keen power of observation
• intellectual honesty