Biology and Genetics
- Cell theory by Theodor Schwann, Matthias Jakob Schleiden and Rudolf Virchow
- Isolated the non-protein component of "nuclein", nucleic acid, and later isolated its five primary nucleobases by Albrecht Kossel
- Chromatography by Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge
- Humboldt Penguin by Franz Meyen
- Humboldtian science by Alexander von Humboldt
- Citric acid cycle and Urea cycle by Hans Adolf Krebs
- Plateosaurus by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer
- Rhamphorhynchus by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer
- Archaeopteryx by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer
- Teratosaurus by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer
- Alternation of generations by Wilhelm Hofmeister
- Mesonephros by Caspar Friedrich Wolff
- Homo heidelbergensis by Otto Schoetensack
- Neanderthal by Johann Carl Fuhlrott
- Recapitulation theory by Ernst Haeckel
- Weismann barrier by August Weismann
- Germ plasm by August Weismann
- Hardy–Weinberg principle by Wilhelm Weinberg
- Centrosome by Theodor Boveri
- determining the chemical composition of nucleic acids by Albrecht Kossel
- Meiosis by Oscar Hertwig.
- Mitosis by Hugo von Mohl
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