NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Major Fathers in Biology

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  • Father of Genetics = Johann Gregor Mendel (1822 − 1884)
  • Father of modern Genetics = Bateson
  • Father of Human Genetics = Arachibald Garrod
  • Father of Genetics Engineering = Paul Berg
  • Father of Indian Taxonomy = Henry Santapau
  • Father of Blood Group = Landsteiner
  • Father of Immunology = Edward Jenner
  • Father of Mutation = Hugo De vries
  • Father of Indian Mycology = E J Butler
  • Father of Medicine = Hippocrates
  • Father of Eugenics = Francis Galton
  • Father of Evolutionary Theory = Empedocles
  • Father of Experimental Physiology = Galen
  • Father of Modern anatomy = Andreas Vesalius
  • Father of Comparative anatomy = Georges Cuvier
  • Father of Taxonomy = Carolus Linnaeus
  • Father of Modern Cytology = Cart P. Swanson
  • Father of Modern Biology = Linnaeus
  • Father of paleontology = Leonard devinci
  • Father of Modern Paleontology = Georges Cuvier
  • Father of Biology = Aristotle
  • Father of Botany = Theophrastus