1.3 Major discoveries that revolutionized biology Flashcards
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- Was responsible for a breakthrough classification system for living things
- Ladder of life
- Established species relationships and grouped them correctly
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Aristotle
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- Efforts transformed medical science.
- Had a significant impact on the advancement of numerous medical specialties, including Anatomy, Pathology, Physiology, and Neurology.
- Important findings of the distinctions between veins and arteries, as well as the recognition that the larynx produces voice.
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Galen
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Galen’s scientific concepts were always correct.
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False, although many of his concepts contained scientific mistakes, his contribution to medical science is undeniable
4
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- Invented microscope
- Invented a method for making strong lenses that could magnify up to 500 times
- Found bacteria and the vacuole of the cell
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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-Father of modern classification
- Botanist
- Devised the method for naming, ordering, and classifying creatures
- Separated items into three categories – animals, plants, and minerals – and further organized living things into classes, orders, genera, and species.
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Carl Linnaeus
6
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- Father of natural history
- Theory of evolution
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Charles Darwin
7
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Father of genetics
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Gregor Mendel
8
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- Father of medical microbiology
- Developed the vaccine of anthrax and rabies disease.
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Louis Pasteur
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- Father of modern bacteriology
- Credited with pinpointing the precise causal agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax
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Robert Koch
10
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- Ethologist (scientist who studies animal behaviors)
- Studied chimpanzees
- Was awarded a Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge without holding a bachelor’s degree.
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Jane Goodall
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- American geneticist who developed a technique for identifying and examining chromosomes individually
- Was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 for her discovery of transposition and how genes could turn their physical characteristics on and off.
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Barbara McClintock
12
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- Discovered structure DNA
- Won the medical Nobel Prize
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James Watson and Francis Crick
13
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- Cloned a mammal, famously named Dolly the Sheep.
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Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell
