Important people Flashcards
(19 cards)
Aristotle
- Father of zoology/biology
- How do organisms move, walk, eat
- gave us starting point for organisms
- first attempt to classify organisms
Theophrastus
- Father of Botany
- pupil of aristotle
Gaius Plinius Secundus
- Roman naturalist
- geographic phenomena
Reverend Gilbert White
- modern naturalist
- interested in appearance, first to study behaviour
Jean Baptiste Lamark
- defined the word “biology”
- combined zoology and botany (living things studied as a whole)
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- Father of Microbiology
Carolus Linnaeus
- Father of taxonomy
- constructed binomial nomenclature
Georges Cuvier
- Father of paleontology
Charles Darwin
- Father of evolution
Alfred Russel Wallace
- father of biogeography
Gregor Mendel
- Father of genetics
Edward Osborne Wilson
First to use term “biodiversity” in a paper
Ernst Haeckal
- second development of kingdoms (protista, plantae, animalia)
Edouard Chatton
developed the kingdoms into prokaryotes and eukaryotes
Herbert Copeland
third development of kingdoms (monera, protista, plantae, animalia)
Robert Whittaker
fourth development of kingdoms (monera, protista, plantae, fungi, animalia)
Carl Woese
separation of monera (prokaryotes) into eubacteria and archaea based on DNA
Theodosius Dobzhansky
proposed that each species is reproductively isolated from other species
Ernst Mayr
made biological species concept and expanded on Dobzhanky’s ideas
- produce viable offspring
