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author of Flora de Filipinas Segun al Systema Sexual de Linnaco which consisted of four volumes of full-color illustrations of seeral types of plants that can be found in the Philippines

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Father Manuel Blanco

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took interest in phycology and more specifically in myxophyceae and the blue-green algae. He is the father of phycology

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Dr. Gregorio T. Velasquez

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worked on the taxonomy of grasses, specifically bamboo

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Dr. Jose Vera Santos

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specialized in studies of fungi and lichens

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Dr. Flordeliz R. Uyenco

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concentrated his studies on medicinal plants

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Dr. Eduardo Quisumbing

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prominent zoologist
fishes
geneticist
corals
Philippine birds, bats, and rats
physiologist and cytogeneticist
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Dr. Hilario roxas
Dr. Leopoldo S. Clemente
Dr. Francisco Nemenzo
Dr. Dioscoro Rabor
Dr. Agustin Rodolfo
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theory that human beings evolved from fish

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Anaximander

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Father of medicine, ethics on ideals of a physician

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Hippocrates

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collected many facts about plants and animals. first ever known Classification system for all living things

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Aristotle and Pliny the Elder

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Father of anatomy

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andreas Vesalius

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How blood circulates throughout the human body

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Wiliam harvey

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bacteria and protozoa

cell walls of corks

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anton van leuwenhoek

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use of binomial nomenclature in naming all types of organisms

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Carolus Linnaeus

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14
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compare anatomy of various animals with humans

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baron cuvier

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theory that cells make up all living things

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matthias schleiden and theoder schwann

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theory of evolution

laws of heredity - difference in peas

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charles darwin

gregor john mendel

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debunking theory of spontaneous generation (life from non-life) and developing germ theory of disease

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Louis pasteur and robert koch

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work on living and fossil forms of fish

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louis agassiz

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did pioneer work in botany and specialized in classification of plants, trees and flowers

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asa gray

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digestion and nervous system

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petrovich Pavlov

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breeding of wheat that is resistant to disease

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Rowland Biffen

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main types of human blood

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karl landsteiner

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xrays could produce mutations

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herman joseph muller

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freshwater and father of modern ecology

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evelyn hutchinson

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5 kingdom scheme where organisms are classified into 5 major groups: monerans, protists, fungi, plants, ad animals

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Robert whittaker

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fruit fly: genes (hereditary factors) are located in the chromosomes in linear order

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Thomas Hunt Morgan

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model of dna from crystallography data of …

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watson and crick

rosalind franklin, maurice wilkins and linus pauling

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produce nucleic acids artificially

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arthur kornberg (DNA)
Severo Ochoa (RNA)
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successfully ampified certain segments of a DNA strand using the PCR method

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KB Mullis