
| Theories, Principles, Rules or Laws | Proposed by |
| 1. ?All plants & animals are composed of cells? | Dutrochet H.J |
| 2. ?Birds are glorified reptiles? | Huxley |
| 3. ?Omnis cellula e cellula? | R. Virchow |
| 4. ?Protoplasm is the physical basis of life? | Huxley |
| 5. ?Abiogenesis first, but biogenesis ever since? | Oparin |
| 6. Allen?s law | Allen |
| 7. Apical cell theory of apical meristems | Hofmeister |
| 8. Aquatic origin of life- Theory | Thales (624-548 BC) |
| 9. Artificial parthenogenesis- Theory | Loeb |
| 10. Artificial System of Classification | Aristotle |
| 11. Axial gradient theory | Child |
| 12. Balance theory of sex in Drosophila | Bridges G.B (1916) |
| 13. Binomial nomenclature | Linnaeus |
| 14. Biogenesis (= Theory of movement) | Robert Brown |
| 15. Biogenesis (terrestrial origin) - Theory | Francesco Redi (experimentally proved by Louis Pasteur in 1862) |
| 16. Biogenetic law- Theory | E. Haeckel |
| 17. Biological species concept | Ernst Mayer and Dobzensky |
| 18. Cascade effect | Sutherland |
| 19. Catastrophism- Theory | Cuvier |
| 20. Cell theory | Schleiden and Schwann |
| 21. Central Dogma of Molecular biology | Crick F.H.C |
| 22. Chargaff?s rule | Chargaff |
| 23. Chemical evolution (Biochemical evolution or Chemogeny or molecular evolutiuon or Organic evolution) - Theory | Alexander I. Oparin (1923) Supported by J.B.S Haldane (1928) |
| 24. Chemosynthetic theory of life | Oparin and Haldane |
| 25. Chiasma type theory | Janssens F.A |
| 26. Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance | Sutton and Boveri |
| 27. Chromosomal theory of linkage | Morgan T.H and Castle |
| 28. Cohesion theory of ascent of sap | Dixon and Jolly |
| 29. Conditioned reflex | I.P Pavlov |
| 30. Contagion- Theory | Fracastorius |
| 31. Continental drift theory | Wagner |
| 32. Cosmozoic theory (Theory of extraterrestrial origin or theory of panspermia) | Richer (1865) |
| 33. Coupling and Repulsion theory | Bateson and Punnet |
| 34. Descent with modification | Darwin |
| 35. Encasement theory | Bonnet |
| 36. Encasement theory | Charles Bonnet |
| 37. Epigenesis- Theory | C.F Wolff |
| 38. Fertilizin- Antifertilizin theory | Lillie F.R (1914) |
| 39. Five kingdom classification | Whittaker |
| 40. Fluid mosaic model | Singer and Nicholson |
| 41. Gause hypothesis (Competitive exclusion principle Hardin) | Gause (1937) |
| 42. Gene Theory (Linkage of gene) | Morgan T.H (1910) |
| 43. Genic balance theory of sex determination | C.B. Bridges |
| 44. Germ layer theory | Von Baer |
| 45. Germ theory of disease | Louis Pasteur |
| 46. Germplasm theory or Germline theory | August Weismann |
| 47. Hardy Weinberg?s law | Hardy G.S and Wilhelm Weinberg (1908) |
| 48. Histogen theory of apical meristem | Hanstein |
| 49. Hypothesis of Muscle contraction | Huxley and Hanson (1954) |
| 50. Idea of Homoeostasis | Claude Bernard |
| 51. Induced fit Hypothesis of enzyme | Koshland |
| 52. Inheritance of acquired characters- Theory | Lamarck Jean Baptiste de (1802) |
| 53. Law of conservation of energy | Von Mayer |
| 54. Law of minimum | Liebig |
| 55. Lock and Key Hypothesis | Emil Fischer |
| 56. Materialistic theory | Oparin |
| 57. Mechanistic theory | Haeckel |
| 58. Mutation theory of evolution | Hugo de Vries (1901) |
| 59. Natural selection and Origin of species | Alfred Russel Wallace (1858) & Charles Robert Darwin (1859) |
| 60. Omnis cellula e cellula | Rudolf Virchow |
| 61. One cistron-one polypeptide theory | C. Yanofsky |
| 62. One gene-one enzyme theory | Beadle and Tatum |
| 63. Ontogeny recapitulates (repeats) phylogeny | E. Haeckel |
| 64. Oparin-Haldane Hypothesis (Primary abiogenesis) | A.I. Oparin and J.B.S Haldane |
| 65. Operon concept of gene action | Jacob and Monod |
| 66. Opsonisation- Theory | Wright and Doughlass |
| 67. Orthogenesis- Theory | Ernst Haeckel |
| 68. Pangenesis- Theory | Darwin |
| 69. Particulate theory | Maupertuis |
| 70. Preformation theory | Jan Swammerdam |
| 71. Principles of inheritance | Mendel (1865) |
| 72. Protoplasm theory | Hertwig |
| 73. Protoplasmic theory | M. Schultze |
| 74. Recapitulation theory or Biogenetic law | Von Baer (1828). It was called as Biogenetic law by Ernst Haeckel (1868). |
| 75. Semen (Fluid) theory | Empedocles (504-433 BC) |
| 76. Sexual selection- Theory | Julian Huxley (1924) |
| 77. Sol gel theory of Amoeba Locomotion | Hyman, Pantin and Mast |
| 78. Special creation- Theory | Falter Saurezi |
| 79. Spontaneous generation (Abiogenesis/Autogenesis) - Theory | Anaximander (B.C 611-547) Aristotle (B.C 384-322) Epicurus (B.C 342-271) Helmont (1577-1644) |
| 80. Stelar theory of plants | Tiegham and Douliot |
| 81. Survival of the fittest- Theory | Spencer |
| 82. Telom theory of Pteridophyta | Zimmerman |
| 83. Tunica corpus theory | Schmidt |
| 84. Vapour and fluid theory of heredity | Pythagoras |
| 85. Vital theory | J.C. Bose |