BIO 1130 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mutation, Special Creation, Medicinal Plants

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

What makes living things live: essentialism according to the greeks, a special essence that allows things to live, certain types of essence posed from generations to generations, 450 ce 16th century: medieval ages, essentialism created more separation in the scala (humans, domesticated animals, underground animals, etc. , special creation all the living things on earth were created by god. Refused to keep quiet about his proof, was threatened by vatican to be excommunicated but he did not keep quiet, died in purgatory until pope john the 22nd: boyle behaviour of gases, pascal origins of calculus, descartes geometry, van leeuwenhoek created first microscope and refused to tell anyone how it was made, was only found out 30 40 years ago, andrea vesalius created anatomy, harvey physiology, figured out the workings of the heart and circulation system and how blood moves through the body, linnaeus he created mechanical taxonomy and binomial nomenclature (system of nomenclature using two sperms; genus and species).