Play disease detective to lean how John Snow tracked down the source of a cholera epidemic! Learn about biologist Ernest Everett Just's discoveries and experiment with osmosis using eggs with dissolved shells! Make your own agar plates for growing bacteria and fungi just like Fannie Hess! Aspiring biologists will discover these and more amazing role models and memorable experiment.

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Maria Sibylla Merian -- Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) -- Charles Darwin -- John Snow -- Gregor Mendel -- Louis Pasteur -- Carlos Juan Finlay -- Robert Koch -- Ilya (Élie) Metchnikoff -- Fanny Hesse -- Santiago -- Charles Turner -- Susan La Flesche Picotte -- Mary Agnes Chase -- Ynés Mexía -- Alexander Fleming -- Ernest Everett Just -- Jacques Monod -- Margaret S. Collins -- Esther Lederberg -- June Almeida -- Luis Baptista -- Patricia Bath -- Danielle Lee -- Rae Wynn-Grant.