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33 Cards in this Set
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The science with animals and all aspects of life |
Zoology |
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Ductless glands and secretion hormones |
Endocrinology |
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Fossil remains, ancient life |
Paleontology |
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Distribution of animals |
Zoogeography |
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Study of mammals |
Mammalogy |
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Study of birds |
Ornithology |
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Study of reptiles and amphibians |
Herpetology |
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Study of fishes |
Ichthyology |
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Study of insects |
Entomology |
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Study of parasites |
Parasitology |
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Study of one-celled animals or protozoa |
Protozoology |
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Study of worms |
Helminthology |
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Study of seashells |
Conchology |
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Study of mollusks |
Malacology |
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Learned how to domesticated cattle, sheep, pigs, cats, geese, and ducks |
Egyptians |
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Father of Zoology |
Aristotle |
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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 |
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Father of Anatomy, pointed some inaccuracies in Galen's description of the human body |
Andreas Vesalius |
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Discovered the circulation of the blood and the atrio-ventricular contraction |
William Harvey |
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Development of the compound microscopes |
Jansen and Galileo |
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First to describe presence of cells in plant tissue |
Robert Hooke |
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First to describe bacteria, protozoa, and sperms |
Anton van Leewenhoek |
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Defines species. Taxonomy |
John Ray Carolus Linnaeus |
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Taxonomy - first to investigate the origin of structure from the three germ layers |
Linnaeus |
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Father of Embryology, first to investigate the origin of structure from the three germ layers (ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm) |
Karl Ernst von Baer |
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Pioneers of comparative anatomy of animals |
George Cuvier and John Hunter |
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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) |
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All cells come from pre-existing cells |
Rudolf Virchow |
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Scientific Method |
Problem, Hypothesis, Experimentation, Conclusion, Theory, Law |
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Variable which is presumed to cause, effect, or stimulate the outcome |
Independent variable |
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Outcome or response variable |
Dependent |
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Controlled |
Extraneous |
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First to domesticate |
Egyptians |