Lesson 1 Zoology- Concept of Zoology and its milestone Flashcards
Father of Medicine; established the first biomedical tradition
Hippocrates
Father of Zoology; provided the first broad classification of
living things into ____& ____
Aristotle
Galen
Developed descriptions of ANATOMY and PHYSIOLOGY
Lymphatic system
Thomas Bartholin
Described the red blood corpuscles (RBCs)
Jan Swammerdam
Demonstrated capillary circulation
Marcelo Malpighi
Robert Hooke
Discovered cells through his studies on cork
Regnier de Graaf
Described the ovarian follicles
Anton von
Leeuwenhoek
Father of Microscopy; discovered protozoans
Introduced the concept about species to a particular kind of
organism and point out variations among members of a
species
John Ray
measurement of blood pressure
Stephen Hales
Carolus Linnaeus
Introduced the binomial system of species classification
Discovered oxygen as a gas released by plants during
photosynthesis; helped in determining the nature of
oxidation and the role of respiration in organisms
Joseph Priestley
George Cuvier
Introduced the study and development of vertebrate
paleontology
Postulated the evolutionary concept of use and disuse
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
Discovered the mammalian ovum
Karl Ernst von Baer
First observation of Brownian movement (small particles
suspended in liquid tend to move in random paths even if
the liquid is static)
Robert Brown
Richard Owen
Introduced concepts of homology and analogy
What is homology?
Organs with same origin
What is analogy?
organs with same function
Established the status of protozoa as single-celled organisms
Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
Described fertilization of frog ovum by spermatozoa
George Newport
Proposed the concept of omnis cellula e cellula (every cells
from a cell
Rudolf Virchow
Charles Darwin and
Louis Pasteur
Introduced the concept of natural selection as a factor in
evolution; refuted the theory of spontaneous generation
Postulated the Wallace line of faunal delimitation
Alfred Russel
Wallace
Introduced the concept of modern zoological classification
Ernst Haeckel
Formulated the first 2 laws of heredity
Gregor Mendel
Eduard Strasburger
Described mitotic cell division
Introduced the concept of adaptive radiation in evolution
Henry Fairfield
Osborn
Introduced the mutation theory of evolution
Hugo de Vries
Described the homologous pairing of maternal and paternal
chromosomes in zygotes
Thomas H.
Montgomery
Advocated the use of chemotherapy in treatment of disease
Paul Ehrlich
Developed X-ray diffractometry
Reginald Oliver
Herzog and Willy
Jancke
Studies certain mutations in corn where she developed the
concept of mobile genetic components (jumping genes)
Barbara McClintock
Discovered the structure of DNA
Francis Crick and
James D. Watson
John Michael Bishop
and Harold E. Varmus
Discovered oncogenes, the genes that cause cancer
Dolly was born – the first successful cloning of an adult animal
1997
1999
The complete genetic code of the human chromosome
is deciphered
the fish genetically-modified aquarium fish went on sale
(2003).
GloFish (2003)
The first anti-aniogenic drug for cancer (Avastin) was approved
2004
2009
the FDA approved the first genetically-engineered
animal
2016
stem cells injected into stroke patients, enabled
them to walk again.
Understanding Ebola: epidemic that started with one
human-animal interaction
2014
WHAT IS ZOOLOGY?
A branch of biology…
study of
mammals.
Mammalogy
Primatology
encompasses the
study of primates’ biology,
behavior, ecology, and
evolution.
study of fish,
Ichthyology
the study of
molluscs
Malacology
scientific study
of insects
Entomology
Ornithology
study of birds
concern with the
study of amphibians and reptiles
Herpetology
What are the 5 fields of study? Explain.
Physiology
Morphology
Anatomy
Embryology
Histology
