Significant Figures in Biology

Question 1

Dobzhansky

Answer 1

fruit flies, evolution and genetics, balance school

Question 2

Darwin

Answer 2

Theory of Evolution, Origin of species

Question 3

Lamark

Answer 3

giraffes, acquired inheritance

Question 4

Weismann

Answer 4

Germplasm Theory, somatic Rebuked larmarck

Question 5

Wallace

Answer 5

co evolution

Question 6

Lyell

Answer 6

gradualism, principles of geology

Question 7

Malthus

Answer 7

struggle for existence in populations, principles of populations

Question 8

Janzen

Answer 8

bees, mark recapture, ant plant mutualism

Question 9

P&R Grant

Answer 9

Galapagos finches, 35 years

Question 10

McClintock

Answer 10

Jumping genes, maize corn

Question 11

Mendel

Answer 11

peas, genetics

Question 12

Fisher

Answer 12

Fundamental Theorem of Selection, Modern Synthesis, Autonomic Selection, Population Evolution, selfer

Question 13

Haldane

Answer 13

Modern Synthesis

Question 14

Wright

Answer 14

modern synthesis, small evolution

Question 15

Morgan

Answer 15

classical school

Question 16

Muller

Answer 16

classical school

Question 17

Ford

Answer 17

balance school

Question 18

Lewontin

Answer 18

electrophoresis

Question 19

Agrawal

Answer 19

evolution of sex

Question 20

Kettlewell

Answer 20

moths

Question 21

Majerus

Answer 21

book

Question 22

Hoekstra

Answer 22

mice coat colour

Question 23

Bradshaw

Answer 23

heavy metal tolerance, plants

Question 24

Lenski

Answer 24

E-coli experimental evolution

Question 25

Barrett

Answer 25

*water hyacinth*

Question 26

Frederickson

Answer 26

*ant-plant mutualism, devil's garden*