general zoology

• is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.

  zoology
• Greek philosopher and scientist is considered the “father of Biology and zoology.”

  Aristotle
• treatment of smallpox from cowpox

  Dr. Edward Jenner
• scientist behind anthrax vaccine

  Louis Pasteur
• scientist behind anthrax and tuberculosis

  Robert Koch
• scientist behind injection, polio, weakened viruses

  Jonas Salk
• scientist behind OPV, live vaccines

  Albert Sabin
• discovered penicillin from culture- grown mold “penicillium”


  Alexander Fleming
• scientist behind early development of chemotherapy

  Paul Erlich
• discovered organisms were made of tissues

  Marie Francois Binchat
• discovered cell as the basis of tissues

  Rene Dutrochet and Robert Hooke
• binomial system for identifying and naming organisms

  Carolus Linnaeus
• Jean Lamarck and Charles Darwin


  theory of evolution
• 3 scientist on theories on genetics

  Gregor Mendel, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Barbara McClintock
• greatest authority on human anatomy; dissected animals; uses Barbary ape as a model

  Galen
• anatomy should be based on direct observation

  Andreas Vesalius
• dealt with blood by observing capillaries in the lungs of a frog

  Marcelo Malpighi
• invented the early microscope

  Eucharias Jansen
• father of microbiology

  Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek
• physiologists; circulation of blood; true function of the heart and the blood vessels

  William Harvey
• studied the hearts and brains of animals; correlated the warming-cooling functions of the heart and brain to human feelings and emotions

  Aristotle
• GIVE 9 SPECIALIZATION IN ZOOLOGY

  ANATOMY, CYTOLOGY, ECOLOGY, EMBRYOLOGY, GENETICS, HISTOLOGY, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, PARASITOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY,
• study of forms and structures of animals

  Anatomy
• study of structures and functions of cell

  Cytology
• study of interaction of animal with the environment.

  Ecology
• study of development of an animal from the fertilized egg

  Embryology
• study of mechanism of transmission of traits from parent to offspring

  Genetics
• study of tissues

  Histology
• study of subcellular details of cell structure and function

  Molecular Biology
• study of animals that live in or on the organism

  Parasitology
• study of function of organism and their parts

  Physiology
• GIVE 6 SPECIALIZATIONS IN ZOOLOGY BY TAXONOMIC CATEGORIES

  ENTOMOLOGY, HERPETOLOGY, ICHTHYOLOGY, MAMMALOGY, ORNITHOLOGY, PROTOZOOLOGY
• Study of insects

  Entomology
• Study of amphibians and reptiles

  Herpetology
• Study of fishes

  Ichthyology
• Study of mammals

  Mammalogy
• Study of birds

  Ornithology
• Study of protozoa

  Protozoology
• what system is used in identifying and naming organisms?

  binomial system