10 scientists Flashcards

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Darwin

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Species evolve overtime, thro natural selection, species adapt to their environment.
wrote a book, studied finches, tortoises in galapagos

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Mendel

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Father of genetics, Laws of inheritance, dominance recessive, Law of segregation, independent assortment

showed how traits are passed down, important for natural selection

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lamarck

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Theory of inheritance and acquired characteristics, Published series of books, fame after death, stated that increased use of a characteristic would cause it to improve and pass it on

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Wallace

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Father of biogeography, fittest survive and reproduce and pass on traits, worked with darwin on NS, concluded that this drives evoloution

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Linneas

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Binomal nomenclature system naming system , Taxonomy,

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Weinburg

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Created equilibrium, 5 criteria and allele consistency when no changes, studies allele and genotypes in pops

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Mayr

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Introduced biological species concept, wrote systematics and the origins of species (darwin), moved away from morphology, members of species only reproduce among themself, redefined species

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Lyell

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Principle of geology

Uniformitarianism, states process were current geological features were created were slow constant and steady

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Al jahiz

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First muslim biologist to dev theory on evoloution, concluded that animals environmental conditions affected their evoloution and differed them from one another. environments affects on animals survival.

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