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Know Who is the Father of Biology: Check here Person Name as Father of Various fields in Biology
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Updated on: September 25th, 2023
Know Who is the Father of Biology: Aristotle, the Greek philosopher of the 4th century is regarded as the “Father of Biology”. Apart from this Aristotle is widely regarded as the “father of scientific study and natural method”. Aristotle was the first person to study biology and make observations. His main interests were mostly zoological and have major texts in the field of biology which includes “Parts of animals” “history of animals”, “Movement of animals”.
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Biography of Aristotle
Aristotle was born in 384 BC in Stagira, an ancient Greek city. His father was a physician who taught him about biology and medical information. When Aristotle was thirteen, he lost both his parents and by the age of seventeen, he moved to Athens to Plato’s Academy to continue his studies. There he resided for more than twenty years and afterwards with one of his Pupil Theophrastus, he moved to the island of Lesbos to continue his research in Zoology and Botany.
While at Lesbos, Aristotle married Pythias with whom he had a daughter also named Pythias. Aristotle was appointed as the head of the Royal Academy of Macedon (a dominant state in ancient Greece) where he taught various future leaders like Alexander the Great, Cassander, and Ptolemy. It is believed that Aristotle was the one who encouraged Alexander to conquer the east.
During his time in Athens, Aristotle is believed to have composed many works, not in the fields of biology but also in physics, metaphysics, logic, politics, and poetics. Aristotle died in the year 322 BC at 62 years of age.
Biology: Biology is the study of life including the study of various processes in the living bodies of various organisms. Biology has a broad scope which is based on several unifying themes, one of which is that every living organism is made up of cells and requires energy to live, grow and reproduce. Earlier called the study of life, today biology has been divided into various branches which focuses on different studies of biology like studies of cells, plants and animals, microorganisms and various other fields which concern the well being of humanity.
Aristotle Works Experiments:
Aristotle’s works were not based on experiments as in modern science but were based on data and discovering common things among animals and classifying them on that basis. Some of his theories were wrong and some of them were totally correct. One of his theories which is correct and based on observation was that for any living organism life span increases with gestation period along with body mass.
Other person regarded as Father of various fields of Biology
Not only Aristotle, but various other people have also contributed to the field of Biology and its various branches, and some of them are considered as the father of these fields. A list of these persons are given below:
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Subject |
Father |
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Father of Botany |
Theophrastus |
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Father of Zoology |
Aristotle |
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Father of Biology |
Aristotle |
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Father of Modern Botany |
Linnaeus |
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Father of Endocrinology |
Thomas Addison |
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Father of Immunology |
Edward Jenner |
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Father of Agronomy |
Peter De-Crescenzi |
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Father of Genetics |
GJ Mendel |
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Father of Modern Genetics |
TH Morgan |
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Father of Cytology |
Robert Hooke |
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Father of Palynology |
Erdtman |
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Father of Mycology |
Micheli |
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Father of Plant Physiology |
Stephan Hales |
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Father of Polygenic Inheritance |
Kreuter |
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Father of Gene Therapy |
Anderson |
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Father of Surgery and Plastic Surgery |
Susruta |
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Father of Anatomy |
Herophilus |
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Father of Ethology |
Konrad Lorentz |
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Father of Cloning |
Ian Wilmut |
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Father of Chemotherapy |
Paul Ehrlich |
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Father of Bryology |
Johann Hedwig |
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Father of Mutation |
Hugo De Vries |
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Father of Genetic Engineering |
Paul Berg |
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Father of Ayurveda |
Charka |
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Father of Taxonomy |
Carolus Linnaeus |
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Father of Embryology |
Aristotle |
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Father of Blood Circulation |
William Harvey |
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Father of Medicine |
Hippocrates |
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Father of Blood Groups |
Karl Landsteiner |
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Father of Paleontology |
Leonardo da Vinci |
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Father of DNA Fingerprinting |
Garrod |
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Father of Gerontology |
Korenchevsk |
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Father of Bacteriology |
Robert Koch |
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Father of Antibiotics |
Alexander Fleming |
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Father of Pathology |
Rudolph Virchow |
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Father of Virology |
WM Stanley Martinus Beijerinck |
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Father of Epidemiology |
John Snow |
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Father of Endocrinology |
Thomas Addison |
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Father of Homeopathy |
Hahnemann |
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Father of Biogeography |
Alfred Russel Wallace |
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Father of Entomology |
Jan Swammerdam Johan Christian Fabricius William Kirby |
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Father of Evolution |
Charles Darwin |
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Father of Herpetology |
John Edwards Holbrook |
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Father of Ichthyology |
Peter Artedi |
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Father of Innate (natural) immunity |
Élie Metchnikoff |
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Father of Humoral immunity |
Paul Ehrlich |
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Father of Microbiology |
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Louis Pasteur |
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Father of Molecular biology |
Linus Pauling |
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Father of Molecular biophysics |
Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran |
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Father of Parasitology |
Francesco Redi |
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Father of Cheloniology |
Archie Carr |
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