History of Biology Flashcards
He was a Greek philosopher who developed a theory that humans evolved from fish.
Anaximander
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.
Hippocrates
He was a Greek philosopher who created the first ever known classification for all living things.
Aristotle
Who were the Greek philosopher and Roman naturalist who collected facts about plants and animals?
Aristotle and Pliny the Elder
It was the period of time where interest in biology declined as people turned their focus on religion.
Middle Ages
It was the period of time where the interest in biology was revived.
late Renaissance
He was regarded as the Father of Anatomy.
Andreas Vesalius
He was an English physician who showed how blood circulates through the human body.
William Harvey
He was a Dutch scientist who was first to observe bacteria and protozoa using a simple microscope which he built.
Anton van Leuwenhoek
He was an English scientist who described cell walls of cork as tiny boxes.
Robert Hooke
He proposed the use of binomial nomenclature in naming all types of organisms.
Carolus Linnaeus
He was a French naturalist who was first to compare the anatomy of various animals with humans.
Baron Georges Cuvier
Who were the German botanist and zoologist who set forth the theory that all living things are composed of cells?
Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann
He was an English naturalist who revolutionized the study of biology with his theory of evolution.
Charles Darwin
He discovered the laws of heredity while studying character differences in peas.
Gregor Johann Mendel
Who pioneered in biotechnology by debunking the theory of spontaneous generations and developing the germ theory of disease.
Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch
He was an American naturalist who won acclaim of his research on living and fossil forms of fish.
Louis Agassiz
He did pioneer work in botany and specialized in the classification of plants, trees, and flowers.
Asa Gray
He was a Russian physiologist who was known for his research in digestion and the nervous system.
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
He was an English botanist who pioneered in the breeding of disease-resistant wheat.
Sir Rowland Biffen
He was an American physiologist who discovered the main types of human blood.
Karl Landsteiner
He was an American scientist who revealed that x-rays could create mutations.
Herman Joseph Muller
He was regarded as the Father of Modern Ecology and is known for his ecological studies of freshwater lakes.
George Evelyn Hutchinson
He proposed the 5-kingdom scheme where organisms are classified into 5 major groups: monerans, protists, fungi, plants, and animals.
Robert Whittaker
