People

Question 1

Who was Mathias Schleiden?

Answer 1

A German botanist who noticed nuclei (or a dark spot) in cells

Question 2

Who was Theodor Schwann?

Answer 2

A German physiologist who saw similar looking structures (cells) in animal tissue

Question 3

Who was Rudolph Virchow

Answer 3

A German biologist who proposed that all cells arise from previously existing cells.

Question 4

Who is accredited with Cell Theory? (2)

Answer 4

Schleiden and Schwann

Question 5

Who first coined the term “biodiversity”?

Answer 5

Edward Osborne Wilson

Question 6

Who was accredited with the Ladder of Increased Complexity?

Answer 6

Aristotle

Question 7

Who was Aristotle and how did he classify life?

Answer 7

A Greek philosopher and botanist who classified life by whether things were plants and animals, if they moved, and how they moved.

Question 8

Who was John Ray and what is he known for?

Answer 8

An English naturalist who is known as the pioneer of plant taxonomy (the morphological classification of plants).

Question 9

Who came up with the terms monocot and dicot?

Answer 9

John Ray

Question 10

Who wrote the book ‘Systema Naturae’?

Answer 10

Carolus Linneaus

Question 11

Who was Carolus Linneaus?

Answer 11

A Swedish botanist who classified everything with his system of binomial nomenclature.

Question 12

Who was Theodosius Dobzhansky and what did he propose?

Answer 12

An American geneticist who proposed that each species is reproductively isolated from other species.

Question 13

Who came up with the Biological Species Concept?

Answer 13

Ernst Mayr

Question 14

Who was Ernst Mayr?

Answer 14

An evolutionary biologist that expanded on the ideas of Dobzhansky

Question 15

Who wrote ‘The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection’?

Answer 15

Charles Darwin (yay for freebies)

Question 16

Where did Darwin’s Voyage take him?

Answer 16

Around the world.
2 years on boat (HMS Beagle)
3 years on land (Galapagos)

Question 17

Who believed in the fixity of species and how did he account for variations?

Answer 17

Plato, and he accounted for them by calling them imperfections.

Question 18

Who coined the term paleontology?

Answer 18

Baron George Cuvier

Question 19

Who was Baron George Cuvier?

Answer 19

A French vertebrate zoologist

Question 20

How old did Baron George Cuvier believe the earth was?

Answer 20

6000yo

Question 21

Who was the first to use comparative anatomy to develop a system to classify animals?

Answer 21

Baron George Cuvier

Question 22

Who was Eramus Darwin?

Answer 22

A English physician, poet, and amateur scientist. He believed in evolution but did not know its cause.

Question 23

How did Baron George Cuvier account for different layers in fossils having different organisms?

Answer 23

Proposed these changes were due to catastrophes (such as Noah’s flood)

Question 24

How did John Baptiste Lamarck account for different layers in fossils having different organisms?

Answer 24

Through gradual change (evolution), simpler organism at bottom and more complex near the top

Question 25

Who wrote ‘Principles of Geology’ and promoted uniformitarianism?

Answer 25

Sir Charles Lyell

Question 26

What did James Hutton propose?

Answer 26

Uniformitarianism.

Question 27

What did Sir Charles Lyell argue in his book?

Answer 27

That the earth was millions of years old. The geological processes that have occurred could not have only taken place in the span of 6000 years.

Question 28

Who wrote “Essay on the principle of population” (1798)?

Answer 28

Rev. Thomas Malthus

Question 29

What was Thomas Malthus’ economic theory?

Answer 29

human populations outgrow food supply, and therefore individuals must compete for resources (the weak die off in a struggle of existence)