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PHILIPPINE PRESIDENTS
● HOMO HABILIS – man of steel ● CAROLUS LINNAEUS – Father of
(bighead, uses muscle) Taxonomy
● HOMO ERECTUS – man who ● ROBERT HOOKE – termed “cells”
discovered fire & clothes (cellulae)
● HOMO SAPIENS – thinking man ● ANTON VAN LEUWENHOEK –
(can produce materials) 1st person to observe microscopic
organisms (animal cule)
UNFAMILIAR BRANCHES OF BIOLOGY ● ROBERT BROWN – discovered
1) ANATOMY – inner organs Nucleus
2) ENTOMOLOGY – insects ● MATTHIAS SCHIEDEN (Botanist)
3) BIOCHEMISTRY – chemical & THEODORE (Zoologist)
patterns of animals - found all plants consist of cells
4) ECOLOGY – living things bet. ● RUDOLF VIRCHOW – proposed
Each other in environment cells come fr. existing cells
5) EMBRYOLOGY – developmental
patterns fr. zygote-birth EARTH’S SPHERES
6) GENETICS – heredity ATMOSPHERE – gaseous sphere
7) MYCOLOGY – fungi protection from meteors
8) HERPETOLOGY – reptiles and Divided into five:
amphibians 1. Troposphere
9) HISTOLOGY – plant and animal 2. Stratosphere
tissues 3. Mesosphere
10) MORPHOLOGY – phenotype 4. Thermosphere
(appearance) 5. Exosphere
11) ORNITHOLOGY – birds
12) PARASITOLOGY – parasites ● HYDROSPHERE – water
13) PALEONTOLOGY – fossils of ● LITHOSPHERE – oceanic and
animals and plants continental crust
14) PHYSIOLOGY – function of tissue, ● BIOSPHERE – all life forms in
organ & system Earth
15) TAXONOMY – classification of ● CRYOSPHERE – ice
living organisms ● ANTHROSPHERE – ancestors