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Who coined the term "cells?"

What did Robert Hooke do?

first to view and draw dead cells from plants in cork

looked like small boxes

named them "cells" because they looked like monk cells

Who was Anton van Leeuwenhoek?

first to view and describe living cells in a simple, handheld microscope with one lens

What did Matthias Schleiden conclude about plants in 1838?

all plants are made of cells
(cofounder of cell theory)

What scientist concluded that all animals are made of cells in 1839?

Theodore Schwann

What did Rudolph Virchow do?

first to observe the division of cells under the microscope in 1855

What conclusion did Virchow make?

all cells come from pre-existing cells

What are the three parts of the cell theory?

basic unit of structure and function

all living things made of cells

come from pre-existing cells

Who cofounded the cell theory?

the botanist Schleiden, the zoologist Schwann, and the medical doctor Virchow

What did Lynn Margulis conclude about cells?

in 1970, some organelles within cells were at one time free living cells

What was her supporting evidence?

organelles with their own DNA

What two DNA containing organelles support Margulis' theory of endosymbosis?

chloroplast and mitochondria

What are the three basic types of cells?

animal, plant, bacteria

What is the difference between unicellular and multicellular cells?

unicellular: composed of one cell
multicellular: composed of many cells that organize into tissues

Order from the smallest to largest: virus, ant, atom, protein, animal cell, chloroplast, human, human egg cell.

atom, protein, virus, chloroplast, animal cell, human egg, ant, human