History of Biology Flashcards

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He was a Greek philosopher who developed a theory that humans evolved from fish.

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Anaximander

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He was a Greek philosopher who was regarded as the Father of Medicine for his influence on the development of medicine, and on the ethics and ideals of a physician.

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Hippocrates

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He was a Greek philosopher who created the first ever known classification for all living things.

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Aristotle

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Who were the Greek philosopher and Roman naturalist who collected facts about plants and animals?

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Aristotle and Pliny the Elder

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It was the period of time where interest in biology declined as people turned their focus on religion.

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Middle Ages

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It was the period of time where the interest in biology was revived.

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late Renaissance

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He was regarded as the Father of Anatomy.

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Andreas Vesalius

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He was an English physician who showed how blood circulates through the human body.

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William Harvey

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He was a Dutch scientist who was first to observe bacteria and protozoa using a simple microscope which he built.

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Anton van Leuwenhoek

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He was an English scientist who described cell walls of cork as tiny boxes.

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Robert Hooke

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He proposed the use of binomial nomenclature in naming all types of organisms.

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Carolus Linnaeus

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He was a French naturalist who was first to compare the anatomy of various animals with humans.

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Baron Georges Cuvier

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Who were the German botanist and zoologist who set forth the theory that all living things are composed of cells?

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Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann

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He was an English naturalist who revolutionized the study of biology with his theory of evolution.

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Charles Darwin

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He discovered the laws of heredity while studying character differences in peas.

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Gregor Johann Mendel

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Who pioneered in biotechnology by debunking the theory of spontaneous generations and developing the germ theory of disease.

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Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch

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He was an American naturalist who won acclaim of his research on living and fossil forms of fish.

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Louis Agassiz

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

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Asa Gray

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He was a Russian physiologist who was known for his research in digestion and the nervous system.

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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

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He was an English botanist who pioneered in the breeding of disease-resistant wheat.

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Sir Rowland Biffen

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He was an American physiologist who discovered the main types of human blood.

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Karl Landsteiner

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He was an American scientist who revealed that x-rays could create mutations.

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Herman Joseph Muller

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He was regarded as the Father of Modern Ecology and is known for his ecological studies of freshwater lakes.

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George Evelyn Hutchinson

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He proposed the 5-kingdom scheme where organisms are classified into 5 major groups: monerans, protists, fungi, plants, and animals.

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Robert Whittaker

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He was an American biologist who proposed that genes (hereditary factors) are located in the chromosomes in linear order.

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Thomas Hunt Morgan

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Who were the American biologist and British biophysicist who proposed the model of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)?

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James Watson and Francis Crick

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The x-ray crystallography data and other information which served as the basis for the proposed model of the DNA came from which scientists?

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Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins, and Linus Pauling

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Who were the American biochemists who successfully created nucleic acids artificially?

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Arthur Kornberg (DNA) and Severo Ochoa (RNA)

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He successfully amplified certain segments of a DNA strand through the polymerase chain reaction method.

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K.B. Mullis

30
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Who authored the Flora de Filipinas Segun al Systema Sexual de Linnaco?

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Father Manuel Blanco

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Who were the 7 co-authors of the Flora de Filipinas Segun al Systema Sexual de Linnaco?

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  • Antonio Llanos
  • Fr. Paul Klein
  • Fr. Manuel Viiches
  • Sebastian Vidal y Soler
  • Trinidad Pardo de Tavera
  • Dr. Leon Maria Guerrero
  • Castro de Eleira
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Who was regarded as the Father of Phycology in the Philippines?

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Dr. Gregorio Velasquez

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He was a Filipino botanist who worked on the taxonomy of grasses, specifically bamboo.

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Dr. Jose Vera Santos

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He was a Filipino scientist who specialized in studies of fungi and lichens.

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Dr. Flordeliz Uyenco

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He was a Filipino scientist who concentrated his studies on medicinal plants in the Philippines.

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Dr. Eduardo Quisimbing

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He was a Filipino zoologist who worked on fishes.

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Dr. Hilario Roxas

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He was a Filipino zoologist-geneticist.

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Dr. Leopoldo Clemente

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He was a Filipino zoologist who worked on corals.

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Dr. Francisco Nemenzo Sr.

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He was a Filipino zoologist who studied Philippine birds, bats, and rats.

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Dr. Dioscoro Rabor

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He was a Filipino zoologist, physiologist, cytogeneticist.

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Dr. Agustin Rodolfo