CELL AND CELL THEORY Flashcards
What is the smallest unit that can perform all life processes?
CELL
He was known as the “Father of Microscopy”
He discovered the animacules after observing a pond scum under the microscope.
He also discovered bacteria in 1676
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
He was known as the “English Father of Microscopy”
He wrote and published Michrographia
He was also the one who coined the term ‘Cell’ which means small rooms in Latin.
Robert Hooke
What did Robert Hooke observe that led him to coin the term ‘cell’?
Cork
He was a German botanist who discovered that all plants were made up of cells.
Matthias Schleiden
A German zoologist who concluded that all animals were made up of cells.
Theodore Schwann
A pathologist who discovered that all living cells just actually came from other existing cells.
Rudolph Virchow
What is in plant cell that is not found in an animal cell?
Plant cell has:
- cell wall
- chloroplast (photosynthesis)
- plasmodesmata ( spaces in between the cell wall)
What is in animal cell that is not found in a plant cell?
the presence of:
- centrioles
- lysosomes
- centrosomes
This facilitates the entry and exit of substances and is part of the endomembrane system despite being outside of the cell.
Plasma Membrane
When was Theodore Schwann born and when did he die?
Dec. 7, 1810 - Jan. 11, 1882
This is for the nutrient and messaging purposes which can be found in the nucleus, particularly in the nuclear envelope.
Nuclear pores
What are the theories under the Cell theory?
- All living things are made up of cells.
- Cells are the basic unit of structure and function in living things
- Living cells arise from existing cells.
The no. of cells for PROKARYOTES is called?
Unicellular
The no. of cells for EUKARYOTES?
Multicellular
What is the presence of nucleus for Eukaryotes?
Nucleus
What is the presence of nucleus for Prokaryotes?
Nucleoid
What is the membrane structure for Prokaryotes?
Not membrane bound