Lesson 1 ·Class 9 · Introducing Biology · Match Lab
How Biology Grew
The people who built the subject.
Connect each figure to what they contributed.
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Aristotle → animals, Theophrastus → plants. Hooke saw dead cork cells; Leeuwenhoek saw living microbes.
What this lesson covers
Challenges to clear
- Connect every figure to their contribution.
- Connect the Father of Botany to his name.
The task
Connect each figure to what they contributed.
What this lesson covers
- Aristotle — Father of Biology; first to classify animals systematically (He grouped animals by their characteristics — the beginning of taxonomy.)
- Theophrastus — Father of Botany; wrote the earliest works on plants (His plant studies did for botany what Aristotle did for zoology.)
- Robert Hooke — Coined the word 'cell' after looking at cork (The empty boxes he saw in cork reminded him of monastery cells.)
- Anton van Leeuwenhoek — First to see living micro-organisms (His hand-made lenses revealed a whole living world nobody knew existed.)
- Carolus Linnaeus — Gave us binomial nomenclature (Two-word Latin names ended the confusion of local names.)
- Charles Darwin — Explained evolution by natural selection (He showed how species change over time through differential survival.)
Hint
Aristotle → animals, Theophrastus → plants. Hooke saw dead cork cells; Leeuwenhoek saw living microbes.