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Q.Who coined the word 'biology'?

(a) Aristotle
(b) Gregor Mendel
(c) Charles Darwin
(d) Boveri
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Aristotle is the intended answer (Father of Biology); the term was in fact coined by Lamarck and Treviranus.

Aristotle made the earliest systematic study of living organisms and is traditionally called the 'Father of Biology' and 'Father of Zoology', so in this multiple-choice set he is the intended answer among the four names given. To be historically accurate, the word 'biology' itself was independently coined around 1800–1802 by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Gottfried Treviranus (and Karl Friedrich Burdach); those names do not appear as opt …

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