BIOLOGY TERMS-FIRST USERS AND COINERS

BIOLOGICAL TERMS FIRST COINED OR USED THE TERM

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

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• 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)