Carolus linneaus - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Microbiology - Correct Answer The study of microscopic organisms. Have ubiquitous nature (everywhere), some beneficial, some neutral, some pathogenic (disease-causing) Antoine van Leeuwenhoek - Correct Answer Father of microbiology. Invented a microscope strong enough to view microbes "animalcules". Giralamo Fracastoro - Correct Answer Regarded as first person to formally postulate that disease was spread by tiny invisible seminaria "seeds of contagion". Robert Hooke - Correct An...

Levels of classification Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. Carolus Linneaus Today's system of taxonomy and classification based in part on his work; his system uses the genus and species name of an organism as its scientific name (names are in Latin because the language is non-evolving and was well-known to most scientists at the time); the purpose of the system is to avoid confusion with more common names. Characteristics of plants Eukaryotic, multicellular, cell wall...

Charles Lyell CORRECT ANSWER Uniformitarianism The "Father of Geology" Alfred Russell Wallace CORRECT ANSWER Natural Historian like Darwin, but unlike him, grew up poor. Read Darwin's "Voyage of the Beagle" at age 26, and considered him a hero. Took his own voyage to Amazon that was a disaster, gets malaria, brother dies of yellow fever, ship catches fire and sinks, and he loses all his specimens. Goes on second trip to Malaysia and gets Malaria again but has a revelation in his fevered...