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Carolous Linneaus
Known as the "Father of Taxonomy". He developeda way to name and organize species that we still use today. His most important contributions were a hierarchial classification system and a binomial nomenclature. -
Hutton
He wasthe founder of modern biology. He originated the theory of uniformitarianism- the fundamental principle for geology. He believed earth was being perpetualy made. -
Lamarck
Believed that evolution occured and proceeded in accordance with natural laws. He came up with the idea that when environments changed, organisms had to change behavior to survive. -
Cuvier
He founded the vertebrate paleantology. He created the comparative method of orgnismal biology. He contributed an imense amount of research in vertebrate and invertebrate paleantology. -
Lyell
Lyell popularized Huttons cocepts of uniformitarianism. He also believed hat the world was shaped by slow- moving forces -
Gregor Mendel
He discovered fundamental laws of inheritance. He tracked the inheritance of genes. He deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited one from each parent. -
Pharmaceuticals (Insulin)
A hormone produces in the pancreas by the islets of Langerhans that regulates the amount of glucose in the blood. -
Gel Electrophoresis
method for separation and anlysis of macromolecules and their fragments, based on their size and charge -
Darwin
His most famous theory was on natural selection. Evolutionary change comes through the production of variation in each generation. Tests were performed and they proved darwin's theory to be true. -
Wilkins
Produced the image of molecular DNA strands. Also studied RNA strands. -
Avery-Mac Leon-McCarty
they discovered that DNA is the substance that causes bacterial transformation. They used strands of purified DNA to to perform bacterial transformations. -
REstriction Enzyme
they cut DNA at a particular place. Theyare essential tools for recombinant DNA technology. It scans a DNA molecue, looking for a particular sequence, usually of four to six nucleotides. -
Franklin
She generated newer data on DNA -
Hershey-Chase
They configured that DNA is the genetic material. They showed that when becteriophages infect bacteria, their DNA enters the host cell, but most of their protein does not. -
Watson and Crick
Discovered that DNA has a double-stranded helix. Also most DNA helices are right handed. They discovered the 5'-3' and 3'-5' ends. -
Polymerase Chain Reaction
used to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across seeral orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence -
Genetic Engineering
manually adding new DNAto an organism. The goal is to add one or more traits that are not already found in hat organism. -
Stem Cells
An undifferentiated cell of a multicellular organism that is capable of giving rise to indefinitely more cells of the same type and from which certain other kinds of cell arise by differentiation. -
Human Genome Project
an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up human DNA -
GMOS
any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering -
Transgenic Animals
they have had a foreing gene deliberately inserted into their genome -
Cloning Animals
producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals (animals)
