Scientists who coined Scientific terms

Term	Given by
1.         Abscisin II	Okhuma
2.         Alga	Linnaeus
3.         Allelomorph	Bateson
4.         Anaphase	Strasburger
5.         Annelida	Lamarck (1809)
6.         Antibiotic	Selman Waksman (1942)
7.         Apomixis	Winkler
8.         Arthropoda	Von Siebold
9.         Astral rays	Fol
10.       Auxin	Went F.W
11.       Bacteriophage	Twort de Herelle
12.       Biloproteins	O’heocha
13.       Biology	Lamarck & Traviranus
14.       Bioplast	Altman
15.       Botany	Lamarck
16.       Bryophyta	Braun
17.       Carotene	Mackenroder
18.       Cell	Robert Hooke
19.       Centriole	Van Beneden
20.       Centrosome	Boveri T
21.       Chiasma	Morgan
22.       Chlorophyll	Pelletier and Caventou
23.       Chloroplast	Schimper
24.       Chordata	Lamarck
25.       Chromatin	Fleming W
26.       Chromosome	W. Waldeyer (1888)
27.       Class	Linnaeus
28.       Cnidaria	Hatscheck
29.       Coelenterata	Leukart
30.       Crossing over	Morgan
31.       Cytokinin	Letham
32.       Cytoplasm	Kolliker
33.       Dephlogisticated air (=O2)	Priestly J.
34.       Dinosaur	Richard Owen (1804-1892)
35.       DNA bar-coding	Paul Hebert (2003)
36.       Dormin	Robinson and Wareing
37.       DPD (Diffusion Pressure Deficit)	Meyer
38.       Echinodermata	Jacob Klein
39.       Ecology	Haeckel
40.       Ecosystem	Transley
41.       Endoplasmic reticulum	Porter
42.       Endosome	Dutrochet
43.       Entamoeba	Lambl
44.       Enzyme	Wilhelm Kuhne (1837-1900) in 1878
45.       Ergastoplasm	Garnier
46.       Eugenics	Galton (1883)
47.       Evolution	Spencer
48.       F1 & F2 generation	Bateson
49.       Family	John Ray
50.       Floating respiration	Blackman
51.       Florigen	Cajlachjan
52.       Fossil	Lamarck
53.       Fungi	Bauhin
54.       Gene	Johansen
55.       Genera	John Ray
56.       Genetics	Bateson (1910)
57.       Genotype	Johansen (1909)
58.       Gibberellin	Yabuta and Sumiki
59.       Gymnosperm	Theophrastus
60.       Heterozygous	Bateson
61.       Histology	Meyer
62.       Homology	Richard Owen (1804-1892)
63.       Homozygous	Bateson
64.       Hormone	Starling
65.       Immunoglobins	Hermens
66.       Kinetin	Miller
67.       Lysoenzyme	Alexander Fleming
68.       Lysosome	Christian de Duve
69.       Meiosis	Farmer and Moore
70.       Metabolism	Schwann
71.       Metaphase	Strasburger
72.       Metaxenia	Swingle
73.       Microbiology	Robert Koch
74.       Mitochondria	Benda
75.       Mitosis	Flemming
76.       Molecular biology	W.T Astbury (1950)
77.       Mollusca	Johnston
78.       Monera	Haeckel (1866)
79.       Mutation	Hugo de Vries (1901)
80.       Mycorrhiza	A. B. Frank
81.       Myxomycetes	Macbride
82.       Nemathelminthes	Gegenbaur (1859)
83.       New Systematics	Huxley
84.       Nucleic acid	Altman
85.       Nucleolus	Bowman
86.       Nucleoplasm	Strasburger
87.       Nucleus	Robert Brown
88.       Parazoa	Solas
89.       Parthenogenesis	Charles Bonnet
90.       Phenotype	Johansen
91.       Photoperiodism	Garner and Allard
92.       Photorespiration	Decker
93.       Phycobillin	Lemberg
94.       Phylum	Cuvier
95.       Physiology	Fersnel
96.       Plasmodesmata	Strasburger
97.       Plastid	Earnest Haeckel
98.       Platyhelminthes	Gegenbaur (1859)
99.       Porifera	Robert Grant
100.    Prion	Prusiner
101.    Prophase	Strasburger
102.    Protein	G.J Mulder
103.    Protista	Haeckel (1866)
104.    Protoplasm	Von Mohl
105.    Protoplasmic respiration	Blackman
106.    Protozoa	Goldfuss
107.    Ribosome	Claude and Palade
108.    Root pressure	Stephan Hales
109.    Sarcode	Dujardin
110.    Sarcosomes	Kolliker
111.    Secretin	Bayliss and Starling
112.    Species	John Ray
113.    Spermatozoa	Von Baer (1827)
114.    Subphylum	Cuvier
115.    Survival of the fittest	Spencer
116.    Symbiosis	H. Anton de Bary
117.    Telemophyta	Takhtajan
118.    Telophase	Strasburger
119.    Thallophyta	Endlichler
120.    Tissue	Bichat
121.    Tracheophyta	Sinnott
122.    Unit membrane	Robertson
123.    Vernalin	Melchers
124.    Vertebrate	Lamarck
125.    Viroid	T.O. Diener
126.    Vitamin	Casimir Funk (1884-1967)
127.    Water potential	Stalyer and Taylor
128.    Wobble	Crick
129.    Xenia	Focke
130.    Zeatin	Letham

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