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Period: Sep 30, 1543 to
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms -
Italian doctor Marcello
Italian doctor Marcello Malpighi discovers the capillaries, thus completing the evidence for the circulation of the blood -
French biologist
argues in Zoological Philosophy that creatures can inherit acquired characteristics -
French scientist
French scientist Georges Cuvier introduces scientific palaeontology with his Research on the Fossil Bones of Quadrupeds -
An American clergyman
An American clergyman, L.L. Langstroth, discovers the 'bee space', which becomes a standard feature of the modern beehive -
Cloning
cloning is the process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria, insects or plants reproduce asexually.
