Lecture 3 and 4

Question 1

What name is given to proteins that can cause disease?

Answer 1

Prion proteins

Question 2

Give an example of a disease caused by prion proteins.

Answer 2

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Question 3

What are prions?

Answer 3

Misfolded proteins

Question 4

What name is given to cells getting larger?

Answer 4

Hypertrophy

Question 5

Name a disease associated with hypertrophy.

Answer 5

Hyertrophic cardiomyopathy

Question 6

What name is given to an abnormal increase in size of an organ due to increased cell division?

Answer 6

Hyperplasia

Question 7

What name is given to cells moving?

Answer 7

Cytochemotaxis

Question 8

What type of phagotic cells ingest materials?

Answer 8

Macrophages

Question 9

Who published Micrographia?

Answer 9

Robert Hooke in 1665

Question 10

Who invented 25 different hand made microscopes?

Answer 10

Anton van Leeuwenhoek (in 1673)

Question 11

What did Anton Van Leeuwenhoek observe?

Answer 11

Animacules in bond water, blood cells in vertebrates

Question 12

Who concluded all plant parts are made of cells?

Answer 12

Matthias Schleiden (1838)

Question 13

Who states that all animal tissues are made of cells?

Answer 13

Theodor Schwann (1839)

Question 14

In 1858, who concluded cells arise from pre-existing cells?

Answer 14

Rudolf Virchow