Names + extra

Question 1

Thomas malthus

Answer 1

An Essay on the Principle of Population, populations cannot grow forever, eventually some resource will limit their growth

Question 2

Gregor Mendal

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discrete particles of inheritance

Question 3

Ibn Hayyan, Abu Rayhan al-biruni, ibn sina

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deductive resoning

Question 4

Theodosius Dobzhansky

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Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution
species should be defined by reprodctive isolation

Question 5

Dmitri Ivanovsky

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discovered first virus, tobacco mosaic virus

Question 6

Viroids discovered by

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Theodor Diener

Question 7

Stanley Prusiner

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announced his team had purified the hypothetical infectious prion

Question 8

Biodiversity first used by

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Edward O Wilson

Question 9

Emil Hans Willi Hennig

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proposed cladistics

Question 10

Ernst Mayr

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having common gene pool and producing fertile offspring

Question 11

Alfred russel Wallace

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convinced darwin to publish

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Darwins first thoughts on

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Hms beagle as a naturalist

Question 13

Thomas Malthus

Answer 13

populations cannot grow forever, eventually some resource will limit it’s growth

Question 14

anton von leewenhoek

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discovered first living cells

Question 15

cells first discovered by

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robert hooke

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schwann and schleiden

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suggested cells are the basic unit of life (cell-theory)

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Rudolf virchow

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concluded all cells come from preexisting cells(cell-theory)

Question 18

Aristotle

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believed species were fixed but did notice that life was somewhat similar and based on this similarity he created his ladder of nature

Question 19

Georges Louis Leclerc

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had one of first published writing against the fixity of species (suggested migration, isolation, overcrowding and the struggle for existence lead to these change)
- adament against species evolving into another but proposed species

Question 20

Erasmus Darwin

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Physician, poet, plant biologist, believed evolution - modern species different but similar from fossils
- plant and animal breeders used practices to change traits of domestic species

Question 21

Baron Georges Cuvier

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• founder of paleontology, proposed abrupt changes in fossil records due to catastrophes

Question 22

Jean Baptiste Lamarck

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Focused on slow change through time - ground work for evolutionary theory

• introducing the slow change of evolution
• introduced the idea that variation feeds evolution

Question 23

Darwin

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• catapulted evolutionary theory into today
• born rich, could think through ideas/select career path
• flunked out of medicine
• got degree in theology