-
Nicholas Steno
He shook the world of science, noting the similarity between shark teeth and the rocks commonly known as "tongue stones". This was our first understanding that fossils were a record of past life. -
Priestly
He observes that plants release oxygen -
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
Theory of Acquired Characteristics - individual organisms acquire (pick up) traits throughout their lives which make them better adapted to their environment; these traits can be passed on to their offspring -
Matthias Schleiden
discovered that all plants are made of cells -
Charles Darwin
Proposed the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection -
Rudolf Virchow
discovered that cells can only arise from pre-existing cells -
Charles Darwin
origin of species -
Gregor Mendel
Mendel's laws of inheritance, basis for genetics -
Oswald Avery
He proves that DNA is the genetic material of the chromosome -
scientists?
The first draft of the human genome is completed