Multiple Choice- Contributions of Scientists Part 2

Lamark

contributed to the classification of animals as vertebrates and invertebrates

Huxley

stressed that zoology and botany should not remain separate areas of study because plant life and animal life are intertwined.

Hans and Zacharias Janssen

Dutch lens makers who produced the first compound microscope.

Hooke

observed and named cells under the microscope. Named the cell after the Latin word "Cellulae" which means small rooms because he was a monk, and he lived in a small room in a monastery. He observed a piece of cork which is made of tree bark, and he saw the box-like structures of a plant cell.

Leuwonhoek

"Father of Microbiology" made improvements to the first microscope. He observed bacteria in pond water.

Schwann

viewed animal tissue under the microscope and discovered they were made of cells.

Schleiden

viewed plant tissue under the microscope and discovered they were made of cells.

Virchow

stated that all living cells arise from previously existing cells.

Aristotle

first person to classify organisms. He classified organisms as either a plant or animal.

Linnaeus

"Father of Taxonomy" -. He developed the system of binomial nomenclature

Whittaker

American biologist who proposed the 5-kingdom system of classification.