GEN BIO 2 | Key Individuals

Rosalind Franklin & Maurice Wilkins

Who studied the X-ray crystallography diffraction pattern?

James Watson & Francis Crick

Who studied the DNA double helix model?

Gregor Mendel

Who is the “Father of Genetics”?

Aristotle

Who proposed that species are basically identical and unchanging?

George-Louis Leclerc

Who proposed that species change as they spread from their original location, wrote a 44-volume natural history series, provided evidence of evolution, and proposed various causes?

James Hutton & Charles Lyell

Who developed the concept of uniformitarianism?

Erasmus Darwin

Who formulated one of the first formal theories on evolution in Zoonomia and based his conclusions in animal during development, breeding by humans, and the presence of vestigial structures?

Georges Cuvier

Who established the sciences of comparative anatomy and paleontology and developed his theory of catastrophies?

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Who is best known for Lamarckism, wherein acquired characteristics are inheritable?

Thomas Malthus

Who published An Essay on the Principle of Population, proposing that the size of human populations is limited by available resources?

Charles Darwin

Who wrote the book On the Origin of Species, where the scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies?

Carl Linnaeus

Who formulated the binomial nomenclature, where life is organized into a hierarchical classification scheme that assigned a constant, scientific name to each type of organism?

Ernst Mayr

Who defined a biological species as “a population, or group of populations, whose members can interbreed and produce fertile offspring?”