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The science with animals and all aspects of life

Zoology

Ductless glands and secretion hormones

Endocrinology

Fossil remains, ancient life

Paleontology

Distribution of animals

Zoogeography

Study of mammals

Mammalogy

Study of birds

Ornithology

Study of reptiles and amphibians

Herpetology

Study of fishes

Ichthyology

Study of insects

Entomology

Study of parasites

Parasitology

Study of one-celled animals or protozoa

Protozoology

Study of worms

Helminthology

Study of seashells

Conchology

Study of mollusks

Malacology

Learned how to domesticated cattle, sheep, pigs, cats, geese, and ducks

Egyptians

Father of Zoology

Aristotle

Dissection to determine structure and function. Made important discoveries on the function of brain, nerves, neurons and the first to state that arteries carry blood and not air

Galen

Father of Anatomy, pointed some inaccuracies in Galen's description of the human body

Andreas Vesalius

Discovered the circulation of the blood and the atrio-ventricular contraction

William Harvey

Development of the compound microscopes

Jansen and Galileo

First to describe presence of cells in plant tissue

Robert Hooke

First to describe bacteria, protozoa, and sperms

Anton van Leewenhoek

Defines species. Taxonomy

John Ray


Carolus Linnaeus

Taxonomy - first to investigate the origin of structure from the three germ layers

Linnaeus

Father of Embryology, first to investigate the origin of structure from the three germ layers (ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm)

Karl Ernst von Baer

Pioneers of comparative anatomy of animals

George Cuvier and John Hunter

Cells are the basic units of structures in plants and animals that organisms are aggregates of cells that are arranged according to define patterns

Schleiden (plants) and Schwann (animals)

All cells come from pre-existing cells

Rudolf Virchow

Scientific Method

Problem, Hypothesis, Experimentation, Conclusion, Theory, Law

Variable which is presumed to cause, effect, or stimulate the outcome

Independent variable

Outcome or response variable

Dependent

Controlled

Extraneous

First to domesticate

Egyptians