module 1 - history Flashcards
Who was Aristotle?
“Father of Zoology & Biology”
he looked at marine animals, birds and mammals
used inductive reasoning
Who was Theophrastus?
“Father of Botany”
was a pupil of aristotle
-he described 500 different types of plants and divided them into trees, herbs, and shrubs
Who was Gaius Plinius Secundus?
“Pliny the elder” & Roman naturalist
He made the first Encyclopedia (Naturalis Historia)
Who was Reverend Gilbert White?
(preist)
-first person to losely study the behaviour of swifts and house martins
Who was Charles Darwin?
“Father of Evolution”
English naturalist
Who was Sir David Attenborough?
English broadcaster, writer and naturalist
Who was Carolus Linnaeus?
“father of taxonomy”
Who was Anonie Van Leeuwenhoek
“Father of microbiology”
Who was Alfred Russel Wallace?
“Father of Biogeography”
Who was Gregor Mendel?
“Father of genetics”
Who was Georges Cuvier?
“Father of Paleontology”
What is Inductive reasoning?
observation –> hypothesis
what is deductive reasoning?
existing theory –> collect observations —> do/dont reject
Who defined the term “BIology”?
Jean-Baptiste Lamark
