文档介绍：The Cell Theory
Some Random Cell Facts
The average human being posed of around 100 Trillion individual cells!!!
It would take as many as 50 cells to cover the area of a dot on the letter “i”
WOW!!!
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Discovery of Cells
1665- English Scientist, Robert Hooke, discovered cells while looking at a thin slice of cork.
He described the cells as tiny boxes or a b
He thought that cells only existed in plants and fungi
Anton van Leuwenhoek
1673- Used a handmade microscope to observe pond scum & discovered single-anisms
He called them “animalcules”
He also observed blood cells from fish, birds, frogs, dogs, and humans
Therefore, it was known that cells are found in animals as well as plants
150-200 Year Gap???
Between the Hooke/Leuwenhoek discoveries and the mid 19th century, very little cell advancements were made.
This is probably due to the widely accepted, traditional belief in Spontaneous Generation.
Examples:
-Mice from dirty clothes/corn husks
-Maggots from rotting meat
19th Century Advancement
Much doubt existed around Spontaneous Generation
Conclusively disproved by Louis Pasteur
Pasteur: Ummm, I don’t think so!!!
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Development of Cell Theory
1838- German Botanist, Matthias Schleiden, concluded that all plant parts are made of cells
1839- German physiologist, Theodor Schwann, who was a close friend of Schleiden, stated that all animal tissues posed of cells.
Development of Cell Theory
1858- Rudolf Virchow, German physician, after extensive study of cellular pathology, concluded that cells must arise from preexisting cells.
The Cell plete
The 3 ponents of the Cell Theory were plete:
1. anisms posed of one or more cells. (Schleiden & Schwann)(1838-39)
2. The cell is the basic unit of life in all living things. (Schleiden & Schwann)(1838-39)
3. All cells are produced by the division of preexisting cells. (Virchow)(1858)
Modern Cell Theory
Modern Cell Theory contains 4 statements, in addition to the original Cell Theory