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Cell Theory

Published on Jan 12, 2016

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Cell Theory

A Brief History of Cells

Robert Hooke

  • made a "simple" (to today's standards) compound microscope
  • examined cork (tree bark)
  • coined the term cell (the smallest unit of life)

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

First guy to see microorganisms w/ a Simple microscope
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Matthias Schleiden

Studied plant tissues and concluded that all plants are made of cells
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Theodor Schwann

Reported That Animal Tissues Consist of Cells
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Rudolph Virchow

  • Proposed that all cells are produced from the division of existing cells
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Cell Theory Summary

  • All living things are made up of one or more cells
  • Cells are the basic unit of structure and function in all living things
  • Cells arise only from other cells
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