Names Flashcards
Father of zoology
Pioneer zoologist
Aristotle
First to devise a system of classifying animals
Aristotle
Knowledge of nature
Pliny the elder
Wrote the book “NATURAL HISTOLOGY”
Pliny the elder
Pioneer in physiology, medicine and anatomy
Claudius Galem
Greece
Father of medicine
Devise the code for medicine
Established first biochemical tradition
Hippocrates
Anatomist and scientist
Conduct autopsies on human
study homology
Leonardo Da Vinci
Father of anatomy
First to dissect cadavers
Andreas Vesalius
wrote the book “Historia Animalium” which is the basis of modern zoology
Conrad Von Gessner
1st Accurate description of blood circulation
William Harvey
Anatomist and entomology
demonstrate the capillary circulation in lungs of a frog
Focus on insects
Marcello Malphighi
Published micrographia
Discovered cell
Robert Hooke
Discover Microorganisms
first to view microbes
Made more than 400 microscope
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Swedish Botanist
Father of taxonomy
Father of modern Ecology
Binomial Nomenclature
developed classification for animals
Carolus Linnaeus
French naturalist and zoologist
Established the field of comparative anatomy and paleontology
George Cuvier
Father of genetics
Formulated law of inheritance
Gregor Mendel
French physiologist
Father of experimental medicine
Claude Bernard
Published “the origin of species” by means of natural selection
Father of evolution
Charles Darwin
