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Famous biologists/botanists:

  1. Luther Burbank
  2. Carl Linnaeus
  3. Gregor Mendel
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Carl Linnaeus “father of modern taxonomy”
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Sorry, Knowed — #5 is a repeat of #2 :smiley:

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Famous biologists/botanists:

  1. Luther Burbank
  2. Carl Linnaeus
  3. Gregor Mendel
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Beatrix Potter

(Replacing repeat of Carl Linnaeus. And yes, it’s the Beatrix Potter who also wrote Peter Rabbit.)

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Famous biologists/botanists:

  1. Luther Burbank
  2. Carl Linnaeus
  3. Gregor Mendel
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Beatrix Potter
  6. George Washington Carver
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Famous biologists/botanists:

  1. Luther Burbank
  2. Carl Linnaeus
  3. Gregor Mendel
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Beatrix Potter
  6. George Washington Carver
  7. Leonardo da Vinci
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Famous biologists/botanists:

  1. Luther Burbank
  2. Carl Linnaeus
  3. Gregor Mendel
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Beatrix Potter
  6. George Washington Carver
  7. Leonardo da Vinci
  8. James Watson
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Famous biologists/botanists:

  1. Luther Burbank
  2. Carl Linnaeus
  3. Gregor Mendel
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Beatrix Potter
  6. George Washington Carver
  7. Leonardo da Vinci
  8. James Watson
  9. Francis Crick
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Famous biologists/botanists:

  1. Luther Burbank
  2. Carl Linnaeus
  3. Gregor Mendel
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Beatrix Potter
  6. George Washington Carver
  7. Leonardo da Vinci
  8. James Watson
  9. Francis Crick
  10. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

I remember learning in elementary school about Leeuwenhoek’s breakthroughs in microbiology. For whatever reason, his first name back then was always rendered as “Anton”, never “Antonie”. Not even in encyclopedias and other not-necessarily-for-kids fare.

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Famous biologists/botanists:

  1. Luther Burbank
  2. Carl Linnaeus
  3. Gregor Mendel
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Beatrix Potter
  6. George Washington Carver
  7. Leonardo da Vinci
  8. James Watson
  9. Francis Crick
  10. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  11. Louis Pasteur
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Famous biologists/botanists:

  1. Luther Burbank
  2. Carl Linnaeus
  3. Gregor Mendel
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Beatrix Potter
  6. George Washington Carver
  7. Leonardo da Vinci
  8. James Watson
  9. Francis Crick
  10. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  11. Louis Pasteur
  12. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

An early proponent of evolution, although not as well-known as Darwin: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - Wikipedia

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Famous biologists/botanists:

  1. Luther Burbank
  2. Carl Linnaeus
  3. Gregor Mendel
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Beatrix Potter
  6. George Washington Carver
  7. Leonardo da Vinci
  8. James Watson
  9. Francis Crick
  10. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  11. Louis Pasteur
  12. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
  13. Joseph Dalton Hooker

I’ll pass.

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Famous biologists/botanists:

  1. Luther Burbank
  2. Carl Linnaeus
  3. Gregor Mendel
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Beatrix Potter
  6. George Washington Carver
  7. Leonardo da Vinci
  8. James Watson
  9. Francis Crick
  10. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  11. Louis Pasteur
  12. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
  13. Sir Joseph Banks

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Cities or countries: old names, current names

  1. Edo, Tokyo
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Cities or countries: old names, current names

  1. Edo, Tokyo
  2. Leningrad, St Petersburg
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Cities or countries: old names, current names

  1. Edo, Tokyo
  2. Leningrad, St Petersburg
  3. Cleaveland, Cleveland
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Cities or countries: old names, current names

  1. Edo, Tokyo
  2. Leningrad, St Petersburg
  3. Cleaveland, Cleveland
  4. Berlin, Kitchener

City in Ontario, Canada, that changed its name during WWI.

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Cities or countries: old names, current names

  1. Edo, Tokyo
  2. Leningrad, St Petersburg
  3. Cleaveland, Cleveland
  4. Berlin, Kitchener
  5. Abyssinia, Ethiopia
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Cities or countries: old names, current names

  1. Edo, Tokyo
  2. Leningrad, St Petersburg
  3. Cleaveland, Cleveland
  4. Berlin, Kitchener
  5. Abyssinia, Ethiopia
  6. Hot Springs, Truth or Consequences, NM
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Cities or countries: old names, current names

  1. Edo, Tokyo
  2. Leningrad, St Petersburg
  3. Cleaveland, Cleveland
  4. Berlin, Kitchener
  5. Abyssinia, Ethiopia
  6. Hot Springs, Truth or Consequences, NM
  7. Burma, Myanmar
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Cities or countries: old names, current names

  1. Edo, Tokyo
  2. Leningrad, St Petersburg
  3. Cleaveland, Cleveland
  4. Berlin, Kitchener
  5. Abyssinia, Ethiopia
  6. Hot Springs, Truth or Consequences, NM
  7. Burma, Myanmar
  8. Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City
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Cities or countries: old names, current names

  1. Edo, Tokyo
  2. Leningrad, St Petersburg
  3. Cleaveland, Cleveland
  4. Berlin, Kitchener
  5. Abyssinia, Ethiopia
  6. Hot Springs, Truth or Consequences, NM
  7. Burma, Myanmar
  8. Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City
  9. Trimountaine, Boston