CELLS Flashcards
Cells are the basic structural, functional, and biological units of all living organisms.
Cell
Every living thing, from single-celled bacteria to multicellular plants and animals, is made of –
Cell
are often referred to as the “building blocks of life.”
Cells
The discovery of cells was only possible after the compound microscope was invented by a Dutch lens maker,
Zacharias Janssen, in
1590.
The word lens comes from lens, the Latin name
of
lentil
The cell was first discovered
by ——–, which can
be found to be described in
his book Micrographia.
Robert Hooke
This came from the Latin word Cella, meaning
“a small room”
which means the
six-sided cell of a
honeycomb.
Cellulae
He use microscope containing
improved lenses that could
magnify objects almost 300-
fold, or 270x
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Father of Microscopy and Microbiology
1600’s
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
He found motile objects under
microscope.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
He was a professor of botany
at the University of Jena,
Germany.
Mathias Jakob
Schleiden 1804- 1881
He studied different types of
plants under the microscope.
Mathias Jakob
Schleiden 1804- 1881
He was a professor of
physiology at the University of
Louvain, Belgium
Theodor
schwann 1810- 1882
He studied several slides of
animal cells.
Theodor
schwann 1810- 1882
