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    The unified cell theory states that all living things are composed of one or more cells, cells are the basic unit of life, and new cells arise from existing cells. This theory was developed in the 1830s and 1840s based on observations using early microscopes by scientists like Robert Hooke, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Matthias Schleiden, and Theodor Schwann. Rudolf Virchow further contributed to cell theory in 1855 by concluding that cells only arise from other cells. The modern cell theory has expanded to include that cells carry genetic material and have energy flow within cells.

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    The unified cell theory states that all living things are composed of one or more cells, cells are the basic unit of life, and new cells arise from existing cells. This theory was developed in the 1830s and 1840s based on observations using early microscopes by scientists like Robert Hooke, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Matthias Schleiden, and Theodor Schwann. Rudolf Virchow further contributed to cell theory in 1855 by concluding that cells only arise from other cells. The modern cell theory has expanded to include that cells carry genetic material and have energy flow within cells.

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    The unified cell theory states that all living things are composed of one or more cells, cells are the basic unit of life, and new cells arise from existing cells. This theory was developed in the 1830s and 1840s based on observations using early microscopes by scientists like Robert Hooke, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Matthias Schleiden, and Theodor Schwann. Rudolf Virchow further contributed to cell theory in 1855 by concluding that cells only arise from other cells. The modern cell theory has expanded to include that cells carry genetic material and have energy flow within cells.

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    The unified cell theory states that all living things are composed of one or more cells, cells are the basic unit of life, and new cells arise from existing cells. This theory was developed in the 1830s and 1840s based on observations using early microscopes by scientists like Robert Hooke, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Matthias Schleiden, and Theodor Schwann. Rudolf Virchow further contributed to cell theory in 1855 by concluding that cells only arise from other cells. The modern cell theory has expanded to include that cells carry genetic material and have energy flow within cells.

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    Cell Theory

    Cell Unit: Day 1


    What is a Scientific Theory?
    Robert Hooke
    ●English scientist
    (1665)
    ●He used light
    microscope to look
    at thin slices of
    plant tissue (cork)
    and saw tiny
    chambers and
    coined the term
    ‘cell’
    ●Named cells-cells
    Zacharias Janssen
    (1580-1638).
    Zacharias Janssen
    is generally
    believed to be the
    first investigator to
    invent the
    compound
    microscope.
    Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    ● Dutch Scientist (1653)


    ● Built microscopes
    ● First person to see living
    cells
    ● First to see living
    microscopic organisms (in
    pond water) and termed
    these microorganisms
    ‘animalcules’
    In 1838, Matthias
    Schleiden, a German
    botanist, concluded that
    all plant tissues are
    composed of cells and
    that an embryonic plant
    arose from a single cell.
    He declared that the cell
    is the basic building
    block of all plant matter.
    This statement of
    Schleiden was the first
    generalizations
    concerning cells.
    ● Theodor Schwann (1839)
    Concluded that all animals
    are composed of cells.
    ● By the late 1830s, botanist
    Matthias Schleiden and
    zoologist Theodor Schwann
    were studying tissues and
    proposed the unified cell
    theory. The unified cell
    theory states that: all living
    things are composed of one
    or more cells; the cell is the
    basic unit of life; and new
    cells arise from existing
    cells.
    ●Rudolf Virchow
    (1855) Concluded
    that cells only come
    from other cells. He
    was the first person
    to recognize
    leukemia. He was
    also the first person
    to explain the
    mechanism of
    pulmonary
    thromboembolism.
    Cell Theory:
    ●All living organisms are composed of one
    or more cells

    ●Cells are the basic units of structure and


    function in an organism

    ●Cells come from other living cells


    The expanded version of the cell
    theory (Modern Cell Theory) can
    also include:

    • Cells carry genetic material


    passed to daughter cells during
    cellular division

    • All cells are essentially the same


    in chemical composition

    • Energy flow (metabolism and


    biochemistry) occurs within cells
    What technology has allowed us to understand
    cells?
    ● Before microscopes we were not aware of microorganisms
    such and unicellular protists and bacteria.
    ● As we have improved microscopes we can see greater detail
    in the cells.
    ● DNA analysis techniques have also helped us learn more
    about cells, this helps us understand how different organisms
    are related.
    ● Other chemical analysis of proteins, RNA, etc have also
    helped us gain an even deeper understanding of cells.
    Prokaryotic vs. Eukaryotic Cells
    Prokaryotic Cell Eukaryotic Cell

    No Nucleus/ DNA in cytoplasm Nucleus/ DNA in nucleus

    No membrane bound organelles Membrane bound organelles

    Usually smaller than Eukaryotic Usually bigger than prokaryotic cells


    cells

    Evolved 3.5 billion years ago Evolved 1.5 billion years ago

    Archaebacteria and Eubacteria Fungi, Protist, Plant, and Animal


    Cell Examples
    Eukaryotic Cells
    Prokaryotic Cells

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