Father of Various Branches of Biology
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Father of Various Branches of Biology
Below is the of different types of branches of Biology and their Father:
| S.N. | Name of Branch | Name of Father |
| 1 | Father of Anatomy | Herophilus |
| 2 | Father of Modern Anatomy | Andreas Vesalius |
| 3 | Father of Antiseptic surgery | J. Lister |
| 4 | Father of Antibiotics | Alexander Fleming |
| 5 | Father of Ayurveda | Charaka |
| 6 | Father of ATP cycle | Lipmann |
| 7 | Father of Bacteriology | Robert Koch |
| 8 | Father of Biology | Aristotle |
| 9 | Father of Blood circulation | William Harvey |
| 10 | Father of Blood groups | Land Steiner |
| 11 | Father of Botany | Theophrastus |
| 12 | Father of Modern Botany | K. Bauhin |
| 13 | Father of Bryology | Johann Hedwig |
| 14 | Father of Chemotherapy | Paul Erlich |
| 15 | Father of Comparative anatomy | George Leopold Cuvier (1769-1832) |
| 16 | Father of Comparative zoology | Cuvier |
| 17 | Father of Concept of Evolution | Empedocles |
| 18 | Father of Conditioned reflex | I.P Pavlov |
| 19 | Father of Cytology | Robert Hooke |
| 20 | Father of Modern Cytology, | Carl P. Swanson |
| 21 | Father of DNA Finger printing | Alec Jeffry |
| 22 | Father of ECG(Electrocardiography) | Einthoven |
| 23 | Father of Embryology | Kaspar Friedrich Wolff |
| 24 | Father of modern Embryology | Karl Ernst Von Baer |
| 25 | Father of Endocrinology | Thomas Addison |
| 26 | Father of Epidemiology | John Snow |
| 27 | Father of Ethology | Konrad Lorentz |
| 28 | Father of Eugenics | Francis Galton |
| 29 | Father of Experimental Genetics | T.H. Morgan |
| 30 | Father of Experimental physiology | Galen |
| 31 | Father of Fermentation | Louis Pasteur |
| 32 | Father of Genetic engineering | Paul Berg |
| 33 | Father of Genetics | G.J. Mendel |
| 34 | Father of Modern Genetics | W. Bateson |
| 35 | Father of Gerontology (Ageing) | Korenchevsk |
| 36 | Father of Haploid Genetics | Dodge (Neurospora genetics) |
| 37 | Father of Histology | Francis Bichat |
| 38 | Father of Histology (Microscopic anatomy) | Malpighi |
| 39 | Father of Homoeopathy | Samuel Hahnemann |
| 40 | Father of Human genetics /Biochemical genetics | Arachibald Garrod |
| 41 | Father of Immunology | Edward Jenner |
| 42 | Father of Indian Algology (Phycology) | M.O.P. Iyengar |
| 43 | Father of Indian Bryology | S.R Kashyap |
| 44 | Father of Indian Ecology | R. Misra |
| 45 | Father of Indian embryology | P. Maheshwari |
| 46 | Father of Indian mycology and plant Pathology | E.J. Butler |
| 47 | Father of Indian Palaeoboatny | Birbal Sahni |
| 48 | Father of Indian Palynology | P.K.K Nair |
| 49 | Father of Indian systematic botany (Taxonomy) | H. Santapau |
| 50 | Father of Medicine | Hippocrates |
| 51 | Father of Modern Microbiology | Louis Pasteur |
| 52 | Father of Microscopy | Marcello Malpighi |
| 53 | Father of Microscopy and Microbiology | Anton van Leeuwenhoek |
| 54 | Father of Mosaic theory | Wilhelm Roux |
| 55 | Father of Mutation theory of evolution | Hugo de Vries |
| 56 | Father of Mycology | P.A Micheli |
| 57 | Father of Palaeontology | Leonardo da Vinci |
| 58 | Father of Modern Palaeontology | Cuvier |
| 59 | Father of Palynology | Erdtman |
| 60 | Father of Modern Pathology | Rudolph Virchow |
| 61 | Father of Plant anatomy | N. Grew |
| 62 | Father of Plant Ecology | Warming |
| 63 | Father of Plant pathology | De Bary |
| 64 | Father of Plant physiology | Stephan Hales |
| 65 | Father of Polio vaccine | Jonas Salk |
| 66 | Father of Quantitative or Polygenic Inheritance | Kolreuter |
| 67 | Father of Regulative theory of embryonic development | Hans Driesch |
| 68 | Father of Special creation theory | Father Sqrez |
| 69 | Father of Stress physiology | Hans Selye |
| 70 | Father of Taxonomy | Carolus Linnaeus |
| 71 | Father of Modern Taxonomy | Carolus Linnaeus |
| 72 | Father of Zoology | Aristotle |
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