Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Region VIII (Eastern Visayas)
Schools Division of Leyte
HILONGOS NATIONAL VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
R.V Fulache St. Brgy. Central Pob. Hilongos, Leyte
GENERAL BIOLOGY I
ACTIVITY SHEET NO 1: CELL THEORY
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WHAT
IS THE
ROBERT HOOKE ANTON VAN
Cell
Theor
LEEUWENHOEK CRITERIA
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Organization of Ideas - (10)
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1838 1839 1855
1665 1673
WHAT ARE THE MATTHIAS
COMPONENTS OF THE SCHLEIDEN THEODOR RUDOLF
SCHWANN VIRCHOW
CELL THEORY?
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HOW DO YOU THINK THE INVENTION OF THE
MICROSCOPE INFLUENCED THE CELL THEORY?
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Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Region VIII (Eastern Visayas)
Schools Division of Leyte
HILONGOS NATIONAL VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
R.V Fulache St. Brgy. Central Pob. Hilongos, Leyte
GENERAL BIOLOGY I
LESSON 1: POSTULATES OF CELL THEORY
Little is much: Understanding the Cork
The discovery of cells was made possible by the
development of the microscope in the 17 th century.
In 1665, an English scientist, Robert Hooke,
examined a thin slice of cork under the
microscope. He observed that the piece of cork
was composed of many tiny compartments which
resembled little rooms with surrounding wall.
Hooke named these compartments cells. The cells
that Hooke observed were not living. He
concentrated his study only on the structure,
particularly on the cell wall, and did not pursue his
investigation of the cell content.
In 1674, the Dutch inventor Antoine Van Leuwenhoek observed red
blood cells, sperms and a myriad of single-celled organisms in pond water. He
discovered free cells and observed the nucleus within some red blood cells.
Leuwenhoek was a contemporary of Robert Hooke. He had more success in living
cells in action despite his smaller, simpler, handled microscopes.
Over the next 200 years after Hooke, another scientist, a Scottish botanist
named Robert Brown, made a general conclusion in 1831. He discovered the
nucleus and theorized that this structure is a fundamental and a constant
component of the cell.
In 1835, a French biologist, Felix Dujardin found out that living cells
contained an internal substance. Not knowing exactly what this substance was,
Dujardin gave it the name sarcode. It was a Bohemian physiologist, Jan
Evangelista Purkinje, who made a thorough investigation of this internal
material. He gave it the name protoplasm, a term coined for the colloidal
substance in the cell which is currently known as cytoplasm.
In 1838, Matthias Schleiden, a German botanist, stated that all plants
are composed of cells. After him, in 1839, Theodore Schwann, a German
zoologist, concluded that all animals are composed of cells. Jointly, Schleiden and
Schwann came out with the theory that all living things are composed of cells.
Twenty years later, in 1858, a German biologist, Rudolph Virchow, theorized
that all living cells come from pre-existing living cells. His conclusion arose from
observing dividing cells while he was at work.
These observations became the major components of the cell theory. The cell
theory states that:
1. All living things are composed of one or more cells and cell products.
2. All living cells come from other living cells by the process of cell
division.
3. Cells are the basic units of structure and function on organism.
