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Cell Theory
The Five Scientists of Cell Theory
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Early 1600s looked at cork and named it "cell" | Robert Hooke |
| Discovered: bacteria, parasites, sperm, blood. Didn't create microsc. but improved and made over 500 of them. Early 1600s and Dutch | Antony van Leeuwenhoek |
| German-1838 "All PLANTS are made of cells" | Matthais Schleiden |
| "All LIVING things are made up of cells" | Theodor Schwann |
| "All Cells arise from other cells" Nucleus-must for cell division/mitosis | Rudolph Virchow |
| First part of cell theory | All organisms are composed of at least 1 cell. |
| Second part of cell theory | The cell is the basic unit of structure and organization of organisms. |
| Third part of cell theory. | All cells come from preexisting cells. |