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- Father of Handwashing
Selman Waksman
1940- electron microscope was
He discovered streptomycin
developed and virus structure and
(anti-tubercular antibiotic &
aminoglycoside) from chemistry as observed.
Streptomyces species.
Ernst Haekel
He introduced the 3-kingdom
system or classifying living
organisms.
Kingdom Animalia
Kingdom Plantae
Kingdom Protista NAMING AND CLASSIFYING
Higher Protists- fungi & ORGANISMS
protozoans 1735- Carolus Linnaeus
Lower Protists- bacteria & established the system of
cyanobacteria nomenclature for organisms or
binomial nomenclature
Robert H. Whittaker (1969)
- He introduced the currently used Scientific names can:
5 kingdoms of classifying living
Describe the organism
organisms
Honor the researcher
Identify the habitat of the
species
Example:
Escherichia coli
- By Theodore Escherion
- coli because E. coli in the
colon of large intestine
RECOMBINANT DNA
TECHNOLOGY (1960s) Paul Berg
1960s
- Explosion of discoveries
relating to the way DNA
control protein synthesis.