Discovery of the Cell

Question 1

A cell is?

Answer 1

The smallest unit that can carry out the processes of life

Question 2

The word “cell” was first used by?

Answer 2

Robert Hooke

Question 3

Hooke called them “cells” because?

Answer 3

They reminded him of tiny rooms at the monastery

Question 4

Who made simple Microscopes?

Answer 4

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Question 5

The magnification of these microscopes were?

Answer 5

10x greater then Hooke’s

Question 6

Who was the first person to see and discover microorganisms?

Answer 6

Leeuwenhoek was the first to?

Question 7

Leeuwenheok called bacteria cells?

Answer 7

Animalcules

Question 8

A German bontanist

Answer 8

Matthias Schleiden

Question 9

Schledien concluded?

Answer 9

All plant tissue is composed of cells

Question 10

A German zoologist

Answer 10

Theodore Schwann

Question 11

Schwann concluded?

Answer 11

All animal tissue is composed of cells

Question 12

Schledien and Schwann disagreed on?

Answer 12

Where cells come from

Question 13

Who discovered that cells can only come from preexisting cells?

Answer 13

Rudolph Virchow

Question 14

3 Parts of Cell Theory:

Answer 14

1. All living beings are made up of cell
2. The cell is the most basic unit of life
3. All cells must come from preexisting cells