Francesco Redi is referred to as the founder of what?
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Francesco Redi is referred to as the founder of Experimental Biology because he was the first to perform a scientific experiment to disprove Theory of spontaneous generation, which was the prevailing belief at the time. In his experiment, he placed meat in two jars, one open and one sealed.
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