History of Biology

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  1. 2. known as the "Father of Botany"
  2. 5. In 1674, this Dutch merchant and scientist was the first one to discover single-celled organisms and called it animalcules
  3. 8. A leading artist and intellectual of the Italian Renaissance. In 1489, he begins a series of anatomical drawings of the human body
  4. 10. The three scientists Crick, Watson and Wilkins was known for their discovery of the molecular structure of this hereditary material in 1953
  5. 14. An Italian microscopist first visualized capillaries
  6. 15. A German Dominican friar recognized for his contribution in botany, zoology and physiology
  7. 16. known as the "Father of Biology"
  8. 17. An Islamic theologian and intellectual. Among his biological writings is Kitāb al-ḥayawān (“Book of Animals”)
  9. 18. A prominent Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher who contributed to the early understanding of anatomy and physiology
  10. 19. In 1242, this Arabian physician was the first to correctly describe the pulmonary circulation of blood in his book the Commentary on the Anatomy of Canon of Avicenna
  11. 20. An Augustinian botanist also known as the “Father of Modern Genetics”
  12. 22. In 1546, the studies of this French naturalist marked the beginning modern embryology and comparative anatomy
  13. 23. A French physician and surgeon regarded by some medical historians as the father of modern surgery
  14. 24. An English physician who was the first to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body (De motu cordis) in 1628
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  1. 1. American zoologist and geneticist, famous for his experimental research with the fruit fly (Drosophila) by which he established the chromosome theory of heredity
  2. 3. an American biochemist who studied the structure of the hemoglobin
  3. 4. an English naturalist known “Father of Evolutionary Thought”
  4. 6. A German theologian and botanist published the two volumes of his Herbarum vivae eicones, a book about plants with its fresh and vigorous illustrations
  5. 7. Swiss physician and naturalist, best known for his systematic compilations of information on animals and plants
  6. 9. Swedish botanist and physician recognized for his Systema Naturae (1735), as he introduced a new approach to taxonomy (binomial nomenclature)
  7. 11. This Dutch biologist was the first to see red blood cells under a microscope in 1658
  8. 12. known as the "Father of Medicine"
  9. 13. An Italian Dominican theologian, the foremost medieval Scholastic. He developed his own conclusions from Aristotelian premises, notably in the metaphysics of personality, creation, and Providence
  10. 17. A Muslim physician particularly noted for his book The Canon of Medicine
  11. 21. A Roman naturalist accounts in his general encyclopedia entitled Pliny’s Natural History