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Commands man to subdue the earth
Genesis 1:28
most famous early Hebrew naturalist
Solomon
idea that living things can arise from nonliving things
spontaneous generation
ideas of creation without a Creator
evolution
Greek philosopher who put together the doctrine of ideas
Plato
Plato's most famous student; developed doctrine of intellect
Aristotle
wrote
Natural History
Pliny the Elder
so mixed with fact, speculation, and superstition it was of little scientific value
Natural History
Greek physician who lived in Rome; absolute authority in human anatomy for over a hundred years
Galen
wrote
Historia Animalium (History of Animals)
Konrad Gesner
"the Father of Anatomy"
A. Vesalius
the study of the function of body structure
physiology
known for his classic work on the circulation of blood through the body
W. Harvey
the idea that the universe consists of nothing but matter and energy and has no spiritual or supernatural aspects
materialism
most outstanding Jansenist, great mathematician, and scientist
B. Pascal
the first person to devote his whole life to studies with the microscope
A. van Leeuwenhoek
all living things are composted of living units called cells and of cell products
cell theory
reasoning from the specific events in nature to their general causes
inductive reasoning
tentative solutions to a scientific problem
hypotheses
experiments in which all factors are identical except the one being tested
controlled experiments
the one factor being tested
variable
the group not experimented on
control group
when a hypothesis has passes the test of many well-designed experiments and has the support of other scientists
theory
if a theory stands the test of time and is verified by experiment after experiment then it may possibly be called a _____
scientific law
Italian physician; one of the first scientists to present evidence against spontaneous generation
F. Redi
experiments marked the end of spontaneous generation as a scientific possibility
L. Pasteur
living things can only come from other living things
law of biogenesis
the idea that science can find answers for all the problems in life
scientism
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Biology Test Notes part 1
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Test Ch. 13-14
Updated
2013-01-23T00:52:49Z
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