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Guess the

biologist!
a) Robert Hooke
1. b) Carl Linnaeus
c)Anton van
Leeuwenhoek
d)Charles Darwin
B. CARL LINNAEUS
1. “Father of Modern Taxonomy”
Swedish naturalist and explorer
Carolus Linnaeus was the first to
frame principles for defining natural
genera and species of organisms and
to create a uniform system for naming
them, known as Binomial
Nomenclature.
2.
a) Charles Darwin
b) Gregor Mendel
c) Louis Pasteur
d) Theodor Schwann
2.
A. CHARLES DARWIN
British naturalist Charles Darwin is
credited for the theory of natural
selection.
3.
a) Rudolf Virchow
b) Alexander Fleming
c) Louis Pasteur
d) Gregor Mendel
3.
D. GREGOR MENDEL
“Father of Modern Genetics”
Gregor Mendel discovered the basic
principles of heredity through
experiments with pea plants, long
before the discovery of DNA and
genes.
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Hippocrates
d) Socrates
4.
B. ARISTOTLE
“Father of Biology”
He widely studied the natural world
and examined its origins using
scientific insights and systematic
observations rather than connecting it
to divine interference.
4.
a) Marie Curie
5.
b) Rachel Carson
c) Jane Goodall
d) Marie-Anne Paulze
Lavoisier
5.
C. JANE GOODALL
Jane Goodall is known for her
exceptionally detailed and long-
term research on the
chimpanzees .
6.
a) Robert Hooke
b) Theodor Schwann
c) Robert Brown
d) Louis Pasteur
D. LOUIS PASTEUR
6. Considered one of the founders of
bacteriology, Louis Pasteur created
vaccines for anthrax and rabies, and
invented the process of heating food
and wine to kill microbes that cause
contamination, which was named
pasteurization after him.
7.
a. Theophrastus
b. Plato
c. Socrates
d. Aristotle
A. THEOPHRASTUS
7. "Father of Botany“
His books constitute the first
systemization of the botanical
world and were major sources
for botanical knowledge during
antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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