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Overview of Cell Theory Timeline

This document outlines the development of the Cell Theory over time by several scientists: 1) Early microscope observations by Hooke, Leeuwenhoek, Schleiden and Schwann led to the realization that all living things are made of cells. 2) Schleiden and Schwann concluded that plants and animals respectively are made of cells, helping establish the Cell Theory. 3) Later contributions expanded on this, stating that cells hold the basic structure and function of living things, new cells come from existing cells, and cells vary in complexity. This established the modern Cell Theory.

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Overview of Cell Theory Timeline

This document outlines the development of the Cell Theory over time by several scientists: 1) Early microscope observations by Hooke, Leeuwenhoek, Schleiden and Schwann led to the realization that all living things are made of cells. 2) Schleiden and Schwann concluded that plants and animals respectively are made of cells, helping establish the Cell Theory. 3) Later contributions expanded on this, stating that cells hold the basic structure and function of living things, new cells come from existing cells, and cells vary in complexity. This established the modern Cell Theory.

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The Cell Theory

A Timeline

With permission: bujols via Slide Share


Late 1500’s
Late 1500’s
• Hans and Zacharias
Janssen
• Dutch lens grinders
• produced first
compound microscope
(2 lenses)
Robert Hooke ( 1665)

• Used light microscope


to look at thin slices
of plant tissues -- cork
• Looked empty, like
monk’s chamber
• Called tiny chambers
“cells”
Anton von Leeuwenhoek (1673)

• Looked at pond water


organisms
• First to see living
microscopic organisms.
• Made careful sketches.
Matthias Schleiden - 1838
• German Botanist
(studied plants)
• Viewed plant parts
under a microscope
• Discovered that
plant parts are made
of cells
• He concluded:
“All plants are made of
cells.”
Theodore Schwann - 1839

• German scientist who


studied animals -
zoologist
• Saw that all animals he
studied were cellular so
concluded:
“All animals are made of
cells.”
Alexander Carl Heinrich Braun

(German botanist 1855)
contributed to the cell theory
by reworking it and writing
the second part which
confirms that cells hold the
basic structure and function
of all living things. This
essentially expands upon
Schwann and Schleiden's
earlier statements.

“systematic study of plant


morphology”
Rudolf Virchow - 1855
• German physician
who studied cell
reproduction
• “Where a cell
exists, there must
have been a
preexisting cell.”
Cells
• A cell is the smallest unit that can perform
all the functions necessary for life.
• All living things are made up of cells.
• Some living things are made up of only
one cell (unicellular).
• Other living things are made up of many
cells (multicellular).
The Cell Theory
• All living things are composed of one
or more cells.
• The cell is the basic unit of life in all
living things.
• New cells are produced from existing
cells.
Cell Similarities
• Cells come in many shapes and sizes with different
duties but …
• All are surrounded with a cell membrane
• All cells have hereditary material (DNA)
• All have cytoplasm and organelles. Cytoplasm
is the fluid within a cell which provides a safe
environment for the organelles. Organelles are
the structures within the cell that have specific
duties to make the cell a functioning unit.
A) Eukaryotic
• Are complex and of different types.
• Have a nucleus and many organelles.
• Contain more DNA due to different jobs
within the cell. DNA is linear (in a line).
• Possess a cell membrane or a cell wall.
• All living things other than bacteria.
A) Prokaryotic
• Contain no nucleus.
• Have no membrane
covered organelles,
but do have
ribosomes to make
protein.
• Possess circular
DNA.
• Example are bacteria.

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