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