DENDROLOGY

INTRODUCTION TO DENDROLOGY

IMPORTANCE OF DENDROLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
who is the father of parasitology?
A
Herodotus
B
Francesco Redi
C
Eratosthenes
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Francesco Redi (1626-1697) born in Arezzo (Tuscany, Italy), an encyclopedic mind simultaneously naturalist, physician and poet is the founder of scientific and experimental parasitology by his works published in 1668 and 1684.

Detailed explanation-2: -Francesco Redi, (born Feb. 18, 1626, Arezzo, Italy-died March 1, 1697, Pisa), Italian physician and poet who demonstrated that the presence of maggots in putrefying meat does not result from spontaneous generation but from eggs laid on the meat by flies.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1684, Redi published a book called Observations on living animals that are in living animals where he included drawings of over 100 parasites and the locations they were found. The theory of spontaneous generation states living organisms arose from nonliving material and was a widely accepted theory.

Detailed explanation-4: -Redi’s experiment proved that life, maggots, from non life, meat, was superstition. In 1864 the archetype scientist, Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), proved that the. microorganisms causing fermentation were airborne, not spontaneously generated as the evolution. vitalists insisted.

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