INTRO TO BIO (QUIZ 1)

Bios

life

Logos

study

Zoology

the study of animals

Ichthyology

the study of fish

Mamalogy

study of mammals

Ornithology

the study of birds

Bioaccumulation

the build up of chemicals or toxins in living things

Botany

the study of plants

Microbiology

study of small life

Anatomy

study of an organism’s parts

Physiology

study of how organism’s parts work

Entomology

study of insects

Genetics

study of heredity and genetic material

Ecology

study of all life in a particular area, the relationshops between those life forms and the environment

Cell Biology

the study of cells

Aristotle

• Father of Biology and Zoology

• Supported spontaneous generation theory

• Created a theory of the elements

• 1st person to start classifying organisms

Hippocrates

• Father of Medicine

• Hippocratic oath for doctors

Leeuwenhoek

• He did NOT invent the microscope, he perfected microscope lenses

• He was the first person to see: BACTERIA, PROTOZOANS, RED BLOOD CELLS, SPERM CELLS

• He did not support spontaneous generation

Lister

• British

• Used phenol as a disinfectant (hospital)

• Father of Aseptic Surgery

Fleming

• British who accidentally discovered first antibiotic (penicilin)

Salk

Developed 1st polio vaccine injection (1955) and didn’t patent vaccine

Sabin

Developed oral polio vaccine (1959)