What field of biology did Haeckel contribute significantly to?
Botany
Zoology
Genetics
Anatomy
Answer
Ernst Haeckel was a German biologist who contributed significantly to the field of zoology. He is best known for his work on the classification of animals, and for his theory of recapitulation, which states that the development of an individual organism recapitulates the evolutionary history of its species. Haeckel also made important contributions to the fields of embryology and comparative anatomy.
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