GENBIO 1 biologists

Question 1

Carolus Linnaeus

Answer 1

swedish; natural genera and species of organisms; binomial nomenclature.

Question 2

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Answer 2

french; lamarckism (characteristics are inheritable)

Question 3

Charles Darwin

Answer 3

theory of evolution by natural selection

Question 4

Gregor Mendel

Answer 4

basic principles of heredity; 3 basic genetic laws: the law of segregation, dominance, and independent assortment (Mendelian Inheritance)

Question 5

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

Answer 5

first to observe bacteria and protozoa; disproved the theory of spontaneous generation of life

Question 6

Louis Pasteur

Answer 6

pasteurization; also disprove the theory of spontaneous generation of life; contributed to germ theory and the study of infectious disease

Question 7

Alexander Fleming

Answer 7

scottish; penicillin in 1928; 1945 nobel prize for physiology or medicine

Question 8

Robert Brown

Answer 8

cell nucleus and stomata

Question 9

James Watson

Answer 9

american; the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

Question 10

Francis Crick

Answer 10

structure of DNA in 1953

Question 11

Rosalind Franklin

Answer 11

photo 51 (double-helix structure of deoxyribonucleic acid)