History of Bio & Brief PH History of Bio

• Anaximander (611 - 457 BC) developed a theory that human beings evolved from fish
• Hippocrates (460 - 377 BC) was regarded as the Father of Medicine
• Aristotle (384 - 322 BC) created the first known classification system for all living things
• Andreas Vesalius (1514 - 1564) is known as the Father of Anatomy
• William Harvey (1578 - 1657) showed how blood circulates through the human body
• Anton van Leuwenhoek (1632 - 1703) was the first to observe bacteria and protozoa using a simple microscope
• Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703) described cell walls of cork as tiny boxes
• Carolus Linnaeus (1707 - 1778) proposed binomial nomenclature for naming organisms
• Baron Cuvier (1768 - 1832) compared the anatomy of various animals with humans
• Matthias Schleiden (1804 - 1881) and Theodor Schwann (1810 - 1882) proposed the theory that cells make up all living things
• Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) revolutionized biology with his theory of evolution
• Gregor Mendel (1822 - 1884) discovered the laws of heredity while studying peas
• Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895) debunked the theory of spontaneous generation and Robert Koch (1843 - 1910) developed the germ theory of disease
• Louis Agassiz (1807 - 1873) studied living and fossil forms of fish
• Asa Gray (1810 - 1888) did pioneer work in Botany and plant classification
• Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849 - 1936) researched digestion and the nervous system
• Sir Rowland Biffen (1874 - 1949) pioneered in breeding disease-resistant wheat
• Karl Landsteiner (1868 - 1943) discovered the main types of human blood
• Herman Muller (1890 - 1967) showed x-rays could produce mutations
• George Hutchinson (1903 - ) is known for ecological studies of freshwater lakes
• Robert Whittaker proposed the 5-kingdom scheme for classifying organisms
• Gregor Mendel postulated discrete unit factors determine inherited traits in pairs
• Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866 - 1945) proposed that genes are located in chromosomes
• James Watson (1928 - ) and Francis Crick (1916 - ) proposed the model of DNA structure
• Arthur Kornberg (1918 - ) produced DNA and Severo Ochoa (1905 - ) produced RNA artificially
• K.B. Mullis and colleagues amplified DNA segments using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method in 1985
• Father Manuel Blanco authored Flora de Filipinas Segun al Systema Sexual de Linnaco with illustrations of plants in the Philippines
• Dr. Gregorio T. Velasquez is known as the Father of Phycology in the Philippines
• Dr. Jose Vera Santos worked on the taxonomy of grasses, specifically bamboo
• Dr. Flordeliz R. Uyenco specialized in studies of fungi and lichens
• Dr. Eduardo Quisumbing focused on medicinal plants in the Philippines
• Dr. Hilario Roxas studied fishes, Dr. Leopoldo S. Clemente was a geneticist, Dr. Francisco Nemenzo, Sr. worked on corals, Dr. Dioscoro Rabor studied Philippine birds, bats, and rats, and Dr. Agustin Rodolfo was a physiologist and cytogeneticist