People Flashcards
Who was Mathias Schleiden?
A German botanist who noticed nuclei (or a dark spot) in cells
Who was Theodor Schwann?
A German physiologist who saw similar looking structures (cells) in animal tissue
Who was Rudolph Virchow
A German biologist who proposed that all cells arise from previously existing cells.
Who is accredited with Cell Theory? (2)
Schleiden and Schwann
Who first coined the term “biodiversity”?
Edward Osborne Wilson
Who was accredited with the Ladder of Increased Complexity?
Aristotle
Who was Aristotle and how did he classify life?
A Greek philosopher and botanist who classified life by whether things were plants and animals, if they moved, and how they moved.
Who was John Ray and what is he known for?
An English naturalist who is known as the pioneer of plant taxonomy (the morphological classification of plants).
Who came up with the terms monocot and dicot?
John Ray
Who wrote the book ‘Systema Naturae’?
Carolus Linneaus
Who was Carolus Linneaus?
A Swedish botanist who classified everything with his system of binomial nomenclature.
Who was Theodosius Dobzhansky and what did he propose?
An American geneticist who proposed that each species is reproductively isolated from other species.
Who came up with the Biological Species Concept?
Ernst Mayr
Who was Ernst Mayr?
An evolutionary biologist that expanded on the ideas of Dobzhansky
Who wrote ‘The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection’?
Charles Darwin (yay for freebies)
Where did Darwin’s Voyage take him?
Around the world.
2 years on boat (HMS Beagle)
3 years on land (Galapagos)
Who believed in the fixity of species and how did he account for variations?
Plato, and he accounted for them by calling them imperfections.
Who coined the term paleontology?
Baron George Cuvier
Who was Baron George Cuvier?
A French vertebrate zoologist
How old did Baron George Cuvier believe the earth was?
6000yo
Who was the first to use comparative anatomy to develop a system to classify animals?
Baron George Cuvier
Who was Eramus Darwin?
A English physician, poet, and amateur scientist. He believed in evolution but did not know its cause.
How did Baron George Cuvier account for different layers in fossils having different organisms?
Proposed these changes were due to catastrophes (such as Noah’s flood)
How did John Baptiste Lamarck account for different layers in fossils having different organisms?
Through gradual change (evolution), simpler organism at bottom and more complex near the top
