Lesson 1 Scientists Flashcards
dutch lens maker
who made the first microscope
first to observe microorganisms
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Englishman
who coined the term cells
Observed a cork under a microscope and the cork was divided into chambers called cells
Robert Hooke
Swedish botanist
who developed “Binomial Nomenclature”
Binomial Nomenclature
Carolus Linnaeus
British scientist
who developed the idea of “Natural Selection”
Traits that survive the environment
His idea of natural selection lead to his famous “Theory of Evolution”
Charles Darwin
father of Genetics
plant experiments
Gregor Mendel
1st Tenet of Cell Theory
All living things are made up of cells
2nd Tenet of Cell Theory
Cells are the basic units of structure and function of all living things
3rd Tenet of Cell Theory
All cells come from pre-existing cells
they discovered the structure of DNA
Watson and Crick
James Watson(American Biologist)
Francis Crick(British Physicist)
American writer and biologist
warned of the danger of the increased use of pesticides and the damage it was doing to nature
Rachel Carson
French Ocean Explorer
Co-inventor of aqualung
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
made obsetvation that lead to cell theory
Matthias Schleiden
and Theodor Schwann
Schleiden and Schwann
