Introduction to the history of BIOLOGY

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  • PRIMITIVE PERIOD
    The uncritical accumulation of information
  • PRIMITIVE PERIOD
    The accumulation of knowledge was not recorded
  • Classical period
    Started with the Greeks and continued by the Romans
  • Classical period 

    This was marked by the great curiosity about natural phenomena and the obsvernat were recorded
  • Hippocrates
    The first contributor for the classical period
  • Hippocrates
    The father of medicine
  • Aristotle
    The Greatest Ancient Scientist
  • Aristotle
    He excelled in making observation and made the most significant biological contribution
  • Classical period
    The study of human anatomy started and carried out the first physiological experiments in animal
  • Aristotle's student
    Theophrastus
  • Galen
    The Greek physician who practiced medicine in Rome and began tot study human anatomy.
  • Galen
    He carried out the first physiological experiments in animals
  • Renaissance period
    It took place during the 14th-16th period
  • Leonardo da Vinci and Michael Angelo
    Made an accurate studies in plants, animals, and Human anatomy
  • Andreus Vesalius
    He published a book entitled "The structure of the human body"
  • William Harvey
    He describes the blood circulation in man
  • Renaissance period
    Anatomy, Zoology, and Botany were established during the middle of this period
  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
    He introduced the microscope
  • Renaissance period
    The modern biology was introduced during this period
  • Robert hooke
    He observed tiny compartments from a thin slice of cork from a tree bark
  • Cork from a tree bark
    This is where the term "cell" was coined
  • The cell theory was extablished by Rudolf Virchow
  • Charles Darwin
    Proposed Natural Selection
  • Matthias Schleiden his profession is botanist
  • Theodore Schwann is a zoologist
  • Matthias Schleiden and Theodore Schwann
    Claimed that all animals and all plants are made up of cells
  • Francesco Redi
    Disproved the spontaneous generation theory
  • Spontaneous Generation Theory
    living organisms could arise from nonliving matter
  • Lazaro Spallanzani
    experimented on Redi's idea
  • Carolous Linnaeus
    Father of Taxonomy
  • Carolous Linnaeus
    Established the system of nomenclature
  • System of nomenclature
    All living things were arrange by genera and species
  • Carolus Linnaeus
    Established binomial system naming of organisms
  • Charles Darwin
    Studies how genetics were made
  • Binomial system of nomenclature
    combines two names into one to give all species unique scientific names
  • Jean Baptiste Lamarck
    Proposed the theory of evolution
  • Louis Pastuer
    The father of modern microbiology
  • Luis Pastuer
    He introduced pasteurization
  • Pasteurization
    kills microbes and prevents spoilage in beer, milk, and other goods
  • Louis Pastuer
    Discovered the an anti rabies vaccine