BIOLOGICAL TERMS FIRST COINED OR USED THE TERM

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)