What is the difference between Anatomy and Physiology? Anatomy is the study of the internal structure and organs of living beings. Physiology mainly focuses on the functions and relationships of body parts. What are the types of Anatomy? Microscopic Anatomy and Macroscopic Anatomy…
Also known as macroscopic anatomy. Gross anatomy is defined as the study of an organism’s structures which are visible to the naked eye. The main objective of Gross anatomy is to obtain complete information about the structural organization of an organism.…
Also known as histology. Microscopic anatomy is the study of cells and tissues as discerned by a microscope. The individuals who specialize in this study are called histologists. The process involves marking and dividing cells and tissues into sections to be…
Anatomy could be classified into: Human Anatomy – Human anatomy involves the study of the physical structure of the human body. It focuses on numerous systems, including circulatory, digestive, endocrine, skeletal, lymphatic, nervous, respiratory, urinary, reproductive and muscular systems. Plant Anatomy –…
Anatomy is a branch of biological science which is concerned with the description of body structures of various living organisms as revealed by dissection. The word anatomy is derived from the Greek word “anatomē”, where “ana” means “up” and “tome”…
Of the five microscopists, Robert Hooke was perhaps the most intellectually preeminent. As curator of instruments at the Royal Society of London, he was in touch with all new scientific developments and exhibited interest in such disparate subjects as flying and the construction of clocks. In…
Nehemiah Grew was educated at Cambridge and is regarded by some as one of the founders of plant anatomy. In 1672 he published the first of his great works, The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun, followed in 1682 by The Anatomy of Plants. Although…
The magnifying power of segments of glass spheres was known to the Assyrians before the time of Christ; during the 2nd century CE, Claudius Ptolemy, an astronomer, mathematician, and geographer at Alexandria, wrote a treatise on optics in which he discussed the phenomena of magnification and…
Seventeenth-century advances in biology included the establishment of scientific societies for the dissemination of ideas and progress in the development of the microscope, through which scientists discovered a hitherto invisible world that had far-reaching effects on biology. Systematizing and classifying, however, dominated biology throughout much…
Over the period 1530–40, German theologian and botanist Otto Brunfels published the two volumes of his Herbarum vivae eicones, a book about plants, which, with its fresh and vigorous illustrations, contrasted sharply with earlier texts, whose authors had been content merely to copy from…