Chapter 2: Biological Sciences Flashcards
Who coined the term “biology”?
Jean Baptiste-Lamarck
The father of Biology
Aristotle
Father of Natural Philosophy
Thales of Miletus
Father of Biology, Zoology, and Ancient Taxonomy
Aristotle
Father of Medicine
Hippocrates
The 4 Humors according to Hippocrates
Black bile, yellow bile, blood, phlegm
Wrote Microphagia in 1665
Robert Hooke
Father of Cytology
Robert Hooke
Coined the term “cell” in his experiments using a cork
Robert Hooke
Father of Microscopy
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
The first person to observe protozoa and bacteria, called them “animalcules”
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Father of Genetics
Gregor Mendel
Plants used by Gregor Mendel in his experiments that led to discovery of fundamental laws of inheritance
Pea plants
Father of Botany
Theophrastus
Father of Modern Parasitology
Francesco Redi
Theory that suggested living things came from non-living things
Spontaneous Generation Theory
He coined the phrase “survival of the fittest”
Herbert Spencer
He discovered the circulation of blood
William Harvey
The first to perform public dissection on a human corpse
Andreas Vesalius
Discovered that arteries carry blood
Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus
Father of Modern Taxonomy
Carolus Linnaeus
He formalized the modern system of naming organisms - Binomial Nomenclature
Carolus Linnaeus
Proposed Theory of Use and Disuse and Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
Jean Baptiste-Lamarck
Botanist who proposed that all plants are made of cells
Matthias Schleiden
Zoologist who proposed that all animals are made of cells
Theodore Schwann
