Evolution Scientist

Wrote book 'On the Origin of Species' and came up with the theory of natural selection

Geologist who wrote a book that influenced Darwin

Disproved spontaneous generation with an 'S' shaped flask experiment

Friend of Darwin who held the same ideas

The father of Taxonomy who classified organisms in groups within groups

Scientist who had the idea that life on earth could have formed gradually from nonliving chemicals

Disproved spontaneous generation with the meat and maggots experiment

Boiled broth but did not properly cover the flask

Covered the broth but left out the 'vital force'(oxygen)

Scientists who formed amino acids and other simple organic compounds in a laboratory experiment

Influenced Darwin with his paper about human population growth

Scientist who heated amino acids to form protein-like spheres

Thought that animals acquired traits in lifetime and passed them down to children