Exam II Names Flashcards
Anaximander
Life came from fish
Aristotle, Plate, Socrates
Epigenesis
Buffon
Objected/Went against Linnaeus, naming system was arbitrary.
Carl Linneaus
Systemae Naturae (Describes all living things)
Charles Lyell
Fossil record, strata, geology takes time, uniformitarian.
Clausen, Keck, and Heisey
Cinquefoil plant (local adaption) Evidence of genetic variation (1940)
Cuvier
Catastrophism, Created four branches, (Vertebrae, Mullusca, Articulata, Radiata)
Darwin
History maker in Natural Evoltion
DeVries
New species come from large scale mutation event
Dobzhansky
Genetics
Ernst Mayer
Species defined
Eldridge Gould
Punctuated equilibrium
Hutton
Geological processes are rare and constant
John Ray
Is a naturalist. Earth is really old, things got more complex.
Uniformitarians, catastrophism.
John Usher
Timeline for Bible (Catastrophist)
Kettlewell and Ford
Melanistic Moths
Lamarck
Use and Disuse. Acquired characteristics are passed on.
Mendel
Pea plants, alleles, genes
a. Discrete units
b. mechanism for heredity
Ronald Fisher
Genetic Theory of Natural Selection. Modifier gene.
Sewell-Wright, Haldane
Inbreeding
Simpson
Paleontologist
Stebbins
Plants
Thales
Founder of greek philosophy
Von Werner
Stratigraphy and lithography
Weismann
Germ plasm and somatoplasm (mutation occurs in germ)
William Smith
World first strata determination