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Lesson 1 Zoology- Concept of Zoology and its milestone Flashcards

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Father of Medicine; established the first biomedical tradition

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Hippocrates

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Father of Zoology; provided the first broad classification of
living things into ____& ____

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Aristotle

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Galen

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Developed descriptions of ANATOMY and PHYSIOLOGY

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Lymphatic system

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Thomas Bartholin

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Described the red blood corpuscles (RBCs)

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Jan Swammerdam

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Demonstrated capillary circulation

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Marcelo Malpighi

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Robert Hooke

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Discovered cells through his studies on cork

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Regnier de Graaf

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Described the ovarian follicles

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Anton von
Leeuwenhoek

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Father of Microscopy; discovered protozoans

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Introduced the concept about species to a particular kind of
organism and point out variations among members of a
species

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John Ray

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measurement of blood pressure

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Stephen Hales

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Carolus Linnaeus

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Introduced the binomial system of species classification

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Discovered oxygen as a gas released by plants during
photosynthesis; helped in determining the nature of
oxidation and the role of respiration in organisms

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Joseph Priestley

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George Cuvier

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Introduced the study and development of vertebrate
paleontology

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Postulated the evolutionary concept of use and disuse

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Jean Baptiste de Lamarck

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Discovered the mammalian ovum

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Karl Ernst von Baer

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First observation of Brownian movement (small particles
suspended in liquid tend to move in random paths even if
the liquid is static)

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Robert Brown

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Richard Owen

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Introduced concepts of homology and analogy

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What is homology?

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Organs with same origin

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What is analogy?

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organs with same function

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Established the status of protozoa as single-celled organisms

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Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold

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Described fertilization of frog ovum by spermatozoa

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George Newport

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Proposed the concept of omnis cellula e cellula (every cells
from a cell

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Rudolf Virchow

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Charles Darwin and
Louis Pasteur

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Introduced the concept of natural selection as a factor in
evolution; refuted the theory of spontaneous generation

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Postulated the Wallace line of faunal delimitation
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Introduced the concept of modern zoological classification
Ernst Haeckel
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Formulated the first 2 laws of heredity
Gregor Mendel
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Eduard Strasburger
Described mitotic cell division
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Introduced the concept of adaptive radiation in evolution
Henry Fairfield Osborn
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Introduced the mutation theory of evolution
Hugo de Vries
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Described the homologous pairing of maternal and paternal chromosomes in zygotes
Thomas H. Montgomery
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Advocated the use of chemotherapy in treatment of disease
Paul Ehrlich
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Developed X-ray diffractometry
Reginald Oliver Herzog and Willy Jancke
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Studies certain mutations in corn where she developed the concept of mobile genetic components (jumping genes)
Barbara McClintock
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Discovered the structure of DNA
Francis Crick and James D. Watson
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John Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus
Discovered oncogenes, the genes that cause cancer
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Dolly was born – the first successful cloning of an adult animal
1997
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1999
The complete genetic code of the human chromosome is deciphered
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the fish genetically-modified aquarium fish went on sale (2003).
GloFish (2003)
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The first anti-aniogenic drug for cancer (Avastin) was approved
2004
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2009
the FDA approved the first genetically-engineered animal
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2016
stem cells injected into stroke patients, enabled them to walk again.
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Understanding Ebola: epidemic that started with one human-animal interaction
2014
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WHAT IS ZOOLOGY?
A branch of biology...
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study of mammals.
Mammalogy
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Primatology
encompasses the study of primates' biology, behavior, ecology, and evolution.
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study of fish,
Ichthyology
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the study of molluscs
Malacology
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scientific study of insects
Entomology
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Ornithology
study of birds
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concern with the study of amphibians and reptiles
Herpetology
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What are the 5 fields of study? Explain.
Physiology Morphology Anatomy Embryology Histology

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