Question

The term ecology was coined by $\ldots\ldots\ldots$

• A. E. Munch
• B. Odum
• C. Haeckel
• D. Tansley

Hint:

'Ecology’ was coined by a follower of Charles Darwin who was a known Zoologist. He suggested new ideas of human evolutionary descent. He claimed that the ontogeny (the embryology and development of the individual) had been briefly, and often necessarily incomplete, recapitulated, or repeated, phylogeny (the evolutionary history of the species or race).

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

The term ecology was coined by Ernst Haeckel, in 1866.

Ecology deals with the study of the dependence and interaction of organisms with their environment. The term ecology is believed to have been coined by Ernst Haeckel although its first authentic use was made by Reiter in 1885. The word originates from the Greek  word ‘oikos’, meaning a "place to live."

Brief History:

• In the 18th and 19th centuries, ecology progressed considerably. 
• Carl Linnaeus and his work on nature's economy was the first step toward the study of ecology.
• Systematics term for the book Systema Naturae was coined by Linnaeus.
• William Bateson later explained the theory of inheritance using genetics. 
• To the Mendelian experiments, William Bateson gave the word genetics.
• Concept of the ecosystem was adopted and further developed by Odum.
• The word ecology was coined by the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel, who used the term oekologie to mean "the relationship of the animal to both its organic and its inorganic environment." 

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