BIOLOGICAL TERMS FIRST COINED AND FIRST USED 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 Also read LIST OF BIOLOGY SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS AND THEIR MEANING Cytoplasm and Nucleoplasm Strasburger MitochondriaBenda (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 GeneticsWilliam 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)