FAMOUS PERSONALITIES IN THE FIELD OF BIOLOGY

"Father of Biology and Zoology"
"Father of Ancient Taxonomy"

• Plato
• Darwin
• Linnaeus
• Aristotle

"Father of NATURAL PHILOSOPHY"

• Plato
• Thales of Miletus

• Descartes
• Aristotle

"Father of MEDICINE"

The Theory of Four Humors:

i. Black Bile

ii. Yellow Bile

iii. Blood

iv. Phlegm

• Galileo
• Aristotle
• Hippocrates
• Plato

Father of CYTOLOGY

Micrographia in 1665,

In his experiment using a cork (Oak Tree), he was able to coin the term "CELL".

• Robert Hooke
• Gregor Mendel
• Louis Pasteur
• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

"Father of MICROSCOPY"

-first to observe protozoa called "animalcules".

• Robert Hooke
• Galileo Galilei
• Louis Pasteur
• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

"Father of Genetics"

Discovered fundamental laws of Inheritance through his experiment in pea plants ( pisum sativum).

• Charles Darwin
• Louis Pasteur
• Isaac Newton
• Gregor Mendel