| A | B |
| Darwin | Natural Selection |
| Lamarck | Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics |
| Mendel | Law of Segregation |
| Mendel | Law of Independent Assortment |
| Mendel | "Father of Genetics" |
| Oparin | "primordial soup" |
| Miller | tested Oparin's hypothesis |
| Urey | tested Oparin's hypothesis |
| Woese | proposed new kingdom - archaebacteria |
| Darwin | "survival of the fittest" |
| Pasteur | disproved spontaneous generation |
| Redi | conducted experiments to show that flies do not come from rotting meat |
| Pasteur | used weird-looking flasks to show that microorganisms do simply arise from sterile broth |
| Darwin | sailed to the Galapagos Islands |
| Fox | successfully showed how amino acids can cluster into protocells |