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Explain the
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Pre-Activity:
Did You Know?
What is the smallest unit of
Life?
Did You Know?
How many cells make up an
average human being?
The average human
being is composed 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”
Did You Know?
What cell type that can no longer regenerate once used
up?
Did You Know?
What type of cell can carry Oxygen and supplies it
through the body?
Did You Know?
What is the smallest cell in nature?
Did You Know?
What is the biggest cell in nature?
The Cell Theory
Youtube video about Cell Theory
Guide Question:
What were the major discoveries
leading to the creation of Cell
Theory?
What is the cell theory about?
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 honeycomb
He thought that cells only existed in plants and fungi
Anton van Leuwenhoek
1673- Used a handmade microscope to observe
pond scum & discovered single-celled organisms
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
R-noticed that pollen grains in water jiggled around called
1827-33 - Robert Brown “Brownian motion”
-discovered
Robert Brown the nucleus
Nucleus
Human Cheek Cell
1838 - Matthias Schleiden
A botanist who concluded that all plants are made of cells.
Typical Plant
Cell
1839 - Theodor Schwann
A zoologist who concluded that all animals are made of cells.
Nerve Cells
1855 - Rudolph Virchow
A physician who did
research on cancer cells and
concluded
“Omnis cellula e cellula”.
“All cells are from other
pre-existing cells.”
Based on the discovery of Cell, if you are a scientist how
would you derive the Cell Theory?
The 3 Basic Components of the Cell Theory :
[Link] organisms are composed 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)
The Cell Theory Complete
The 3 Basic Components of the Cell Theory were
now complete:
1. All organisms are composed 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)
How Has The Cell Theory Been Used?
The basic discovered truths about cells, listed in
the Cell Theory, are the basis for things such as:
Disease/Health/Medical Research and Cures(AIDS, Cancer,
Vaccines, Cloning, Stem Cell Research, etc.)
STEM CELL RESEARCH
The research started simple question “How can the
various parts of the human body began forming and
how may it be possible to replicate the processes.
Modern Cell Theory
On Modern Cell Theory
Modern Cell Theory contains 4 statements, in addition
to the original Cell Theory:
1. The cell contains hereditary information(DNA) which is
passed on from cell to cell during cell division.
2. All cells are basically the same in chemical composition
and metabolic activities.
3. All basic chemical & physiological functions are carried
out inside the cells.(movement, digestion,etc)
4. Cell activity depends on the activities of sub-cellular
structures within the cell(organelles, nucleus, plasma
membrane)
Historical Background:
[Link] Hooke
-1665 – coined the term cell
2. Corti
– 1772 – saw substance within the cell
3. Fontana
-1781- used the term nucleolus
4. Robert Brown
– 1831 – saw the nucleus
5. Dujardin
– 1835 – used the term sarcode
6. Mattias Jacob Schleiden & Theodore
Schwann
-1839- cell doctrine
7. Strasburger
– illustrated cell division
8. Hugo Von Mohl
– 1846 – used the term protoplasm
9. Max Schultze
– protoplasm as physical basis of life
10. Thomas Huxley
– protoplasm as chemical basis of life
11. Rudolph Virchow
– 1858 – cell generalization
12. Schimper
–1883- used the term plastid.
13. Frederich Mischer
– 1868- saw DNA in pus
14. Benda Altmann
– coined the term mitochondria
15. Camilo Golgi
–1898- Golgi bodies
16. John Dalton
– 1900 -Neuron in owl
17. Palade
– 1900 – ribosome
18. Porter
– 1900 – Endoplasmic reticulum
19. Daniel Davson
– 1900 – Cell membrane as
sandwich like
20. Christian de Duze
– Lysosome in rat
Application:
Explain the Cell Theory in your own
words
How has the knowledge of Cell
Theory help you understand life.
Some Parting Thoughts
Humans are just an intricately designed
community of cells, which must work
together to survive
The next time you will
be asked what is the
essence of life?
