Development Of Cell Theory

Question 1

Study of cells

Answer 1

Cytology

Question 2

Inventor of the microscope but was for another purpose; a gift to the king

Answer 2

Zacharias Jansen

Question 3

Scientist who disapproved the theory of spontaneous generation

Answer 3

Francesco Redi

Question 4

Made his own microscope

Answer 4

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

Question 5

What did Matthias Scheiden and Theodor Schwann contribute to the cell theory?

Answer 5

Concluded both plants and animals are made out of cells

Discovered Unicellular and Multicellular

Question 6

Discovered and coined “Nucleus”

Answer 6

Robert Brown

Question 7

Examined a cork in the microscope

Answer 7

Robert Hooke

Question 8

Published cell division

Answer 8

Rudolf Virchow

Question 9

The actual discoverer of Cell Division

Answer 9

Robert Remak

Question 10

Scientist who developed to see cells clearly by the use of dye

Answer 10

Walther Flemming

Question 11

Discovered changes inside nucleus during cell division

Answer 11

Walther Flemming

Question 12

Called bacteria “animalcules”
Discovered bacteria

Answer 12

Auton van Leeuwenhoek

Question 13

3 major statements in cell theory

Answer 13

1. All organisms are composed of one or more cells
2. The cells are the basic unit of life
3. All cells come from pre-existing cell

Question 14

What is a theory ?

Answer 14

The best explanation, something highly regarded by scientists

Explains WHY it happens

Question 15

What is Law?

Answer 15

Set of observations about the phenomenon

Predict WHAT happens