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Early ideas of biology, how a level of reductionism developed as man and gods, became separated. We will look at the scientists that forged a science of biology and the part that botany played in delineating chromosomes. Introducing the notion of experimental organisms, Gregor Mendel and development of ideas that the cell was fundamental and more than just a bag of water. Cells did things; they even seemed to be fundamental to all living things, but microanatomy was slow to develop in the wake of big hypotheses.
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Wall, W.J. (2016). Microscopes and Stains: The Rise of Technology. In: The Search for Human Chromosomes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26336-6_2
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