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BIOLOGY TERMS: FIRST USERS AND COINERS
BIOLOGY TERMS: FIRST USERS AND COINERS
BIOLOGICAL TERMS FIRST COINED AND FIRST USED
 
The following list contains some important terms in biology and their first users.
 
  • Autoecology 
    Schroeter and Krichmer
  • Biology 
    Lamarck
  • Bacteria 
    Ehrenberg
  • Bioecology 
    Shelford and Clements
 
CELL BIOLOGY TERMS FIRST COINED AND FIRST USED
 
  • Cell 
    Robert Hooke (In Cork)
  • Cell wall 
    Robert Hooke
  • Cell membrane 
    Nageli and Cramer (1855)
  • Plasmalemma 
    Plowe (1931)
  • Protoplasm 
    Purkinje in animalcell Dujardin namedSarcode to protoplasm
 
 
  • Cytoplasm and Nucleoplasm 
    Strasburger
  • Mitochondria
    Benda (1897)
  • Chioroplast 
    Schimper
  • Mitochondria 
    Kolliker
  • Plastid 
    Haeckel
  • Golgi body 
    Camillo Golgi
  • Lysosome 
    Christain de Duve
  • Ribosome 
    Claude and Palade
  • Endoplasmic reticulum 
    Porter
  • Nucleus 
    Robert Brown
  • Centriole 
    Van Beneden (1880)
  • Chromosome 
    W. Waldeyer 1888
  • Polytene Chromosome 
    Balbiani
  • Lampbrush Chromosome 
    Ruckert
  • Chromonema 
    Veidovsky (1812)
  • Nucleic Acid 
    Altmann
  • Chlorophyll 
    Pelletier and Caventor
  • Periplast 
    Altmann
  • Mitosis 
    W. Hemming (1882)
  • Meiosis 
    Farmer and Moore
  • Unit Membrane 
    Robertson (1956)
  • Nucleoplasm 
    Strasburger
  • Prophase 
    Strasburger
  • Metaphase 
    Strasburger
  • Anaphase 
    Strasburger
  • Telophase 
    Strasburger
  • Coacervates 
    Oparin
  • Ecology 
    Reiter 1885; First Haeckel (1886)
  • Ecosystem 
    Richter (1888) Credit Tansley
  • Enzyme 
    Kuhne
  • Genetics
    William Bateson
  • Gene 
    Johannson (1909)
  • Hormone 
    Starling (1906)
  • Microspheres 
    Sydney Fox
  • Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
  • Physiology 
    Jean Femet
  • Protein 
    Berzelius (1838)
  • Respiration 
    Dutrochet
  • Secretion 
    Baylis and Starling
  • Survival of Fittest 
    Herbert Spencer
  • Use and disuse of organs - John Lamarck
  • Vitamin 
    Funk
 
TAXONOMY TERMS FIRST USED AND FIRST COINED
 
  • Virus 
    Beijerink
  • Protozoa 
    Gold Fuss
  • Porifera 
    Robert Grant
  • Parazoa 
    Solas
  • Coelenterata 
    Leukart
  • Mollusca 
    Johnston
  • Annelida 
    Lamarck
  • Arthropoda 
    Von Shield
  • Echinodermata 
    Jacob Klein
  • Cnidaria 
    Hatscheck
  • Entamoeba 
    Lamble
  • Vertebrata 
    Lamarck
  • Synecology 
    Schroeter and Kirchmar
  • Systematics 
    C. Linnaeus
  • Taxonomy 
    Candolla
  • New Systematics 
    Julian Huxley
  • Genera 
    John Ray
  • Species 
    John Ray
  • Phylogeny 
    Lamarck and concept was established by Haeckel.
  • Phylum 
    Cuvier
  • Sub-Phylum 
    Cuvier
  • Chordata 
    Lamarck
  • Class 
    Linnaeus
  • Order 
    Linnaeus
  • Family 
    John Ray
  • Monera 
    Doughtery and Allen (1960)
  • Procaryontaand Eucaryonta 
    Folt (1950)
  • Prokaryota and Eukaryota 
    Stanier and Van Neil (1962)
  • Fungus 
    Gaspard Bauhin (1560-1624)
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