Question: Who among the following is known as Father of plant pathology?
Options:
Antoni van Leeuwenhoe
Anton de Bary
Louis Pasteur
Aristotle
Anton de BaryÂ
-Anton de Bary, a German botanist who did research on the roles of fungi and other agents in causing plant diseases earned him distinction as a founder of modern mycology and plant pathology.
-He founded the developmental biology of fungi and identified the sequence of sexual and asexual stages and their fructified organs.
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
-He is acknowledged as the father of microbiology.
-He discovered both protists and bacteria.
Louis Pasteur
-He is best known for inventing the process of pasteurization.
-Pasteurization kills microbes and prevents spoilage in beer, milk, and other goods.
Aristotle
-He is called the Father of Biology.
-His work "Aristotle's biology" describes five major biological processes: metabolism, temperature regulation, inheritance, information processing, and embryogenesis.
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
-He is considered the founder of modern chemistry.
-He discovered that mass is conserved in a chemical reaction.