Important people

Question 1

Aristotle

Answer 1

• Father of zoology/biology
• How do organisms move, walk, eat
• gave us starting point for organisms
• first attempt to classify organisms

Question 2

Theophrastus

Answer 2

• Father of Botany
• pupil of aristotle

Question 3

Gaius Plinius Secundus

Answer 3

• Roman naturalist
• geographic phenomena

Question 4

Reverend Gilbert White

Answer 4

• modern naturalist
• interested in appearance, first to study behaviour

Question 5

Jean Baptiste Lamark

Answer 5

• defined the word “biology”
• combined zoology and botany (living things studied as a whole)

Question 6

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Answer 6

• Father of Microbiology

Question 7

Carolus Linnaeus

Answer 7

• Father of taxonomy
• constructed binomial nomenclature

Question 8

Georges Cuvier

Answer 8

• Father of paleontology

Question 9

Charles Darwin

Answer 9

• Father of evolution

Question 10

Alfred Russel Wallace

Answer 10

• father of biogeography

Question 11

Gregor Mendel

Answer 11

• Father of genetics

Question 12

Edward Osborne Wilson

Answer 12

First to use term “biodiversity” in a paper

Question 13

Ernst Haeckal

Answer 13

• second development of kingdoms (protista, plantae, animalia)

Question 14

Edouard Chatton

Answer 14

developed the kingdoms into prokaryotes and eukaryotes

Question 15

Herbert Copeland

Answer 15

third development of kingdoms (monera, protista, plantae, animalia)

Question 16

Robert Whittaker

Answer 16

fourth development of kingdoms (monera, protista, plantae, fungi, animalia)

Question 17

Carl Woese

Answer 17

separation of monera (prokaryotes) into eubacteria and archaea based on DNA

Question 18

Theodosius Dobzhansky

Answer 18

proposed that each species is reproductively isolated from other species

Question 19

Ernst Mayr

Answer 19

made biological species concept and expanded on Dobzhanky’s ideas
- produce viable offspring