People & Their Ideas Flashcards
1
Q
Hutton
A
Uniformitarianism
2
Q
Lyell
A
Promotes and develops uniformitarianism
3
Q
Cuvier
A
Catastrophe & vertebrate paleontology
4
Q
Lamarck
A
Inheritance of acquired characteristics
5
Q
Mendel
A
Particulate inheritance, laws of inheritance
6
Q
Wright
A
Genetic drift
the Founder’s Effect
Genetic diversity in large & small populations
7
Q
Darwin
A
co-discoverer of natural selection
8
Q
Wallace
A
co discoverer of natural selection
9
Q
Malthus
A
Essay on population and competition for scarce resources
10
Q
Huxley
A
First detailed exposition of human evolution using primate anatomy and Neanderthal fossils
11
Q
Watson & Crick
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Describe physical structure of DNA
12
Q
Franklin
A
Obtained 1st image of DNA
13
Q
Carolus Linnaeus
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Established modern system of taxonomy
Binomial nomenclature
Linnaean hierarchy
