How does a scientific theory compare to a scientific hypothesis?

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User: How does a scientific theory compare to a scientific hypothesis?

Weegy: A Hypothesis is just an idea A Theory is a well tested idea but has not been proven true everytime A Law is something that has been tested and has proved true evertime you test it

User: how do scientists today usually communicate their results and conclusions ?

Weegy: Results once completed go to a journal for peer review, editing to meet journal standards, then publication. peer review means the paper its methods & conclusions are seen by another scientist working in the same area. [ Peer review is meant to ensure flawed methods or analysis are weeded out. In most cases it is a basic step that calls for no changes. Intermediate results are often presented in technical meetings as talks or posters. This is often where collaborations are set up so allow labs to share ongoing work. it isn't always a race to see who publishes first. ]

User: How did the design of pasteur's flask help him successfully refute the hypothesis of spontaneous generation ?

Weegy: He put a piece of meat in the flask and covered it with mesh to see if flies grew from inside the meat and another flask and he seen that flies planted there eggs on top of the meat and did not come from inside the meat like it came from now [ where. have you ever had a furit and when it went bad there were alot of flies around it he thought that the furit flies was spontaneous generation which it wasnt the flies actually laid there eggs there. He disproved spontaneous generation by placing meat into 2 seperate flasks. One he left uncovered and the other covered with a mesh-like cheese cloth. Leaving the 2 flasks out, over time he found that the uncovered flask grew maggots on the meat while the covered one had maggots on the cloth. Therefore, he could deduce that the maggots were coming from some other phenomenon... ]
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