CELL Flashcards
(29 cards)
It is a Building blocks of life.
Cell
It Is The fundamental unit of life.
cell
It is the simplest unit of matter that is alive.
Cell
It is Unicellular bacteria to multicellular animals.
Cell
It is the basic organizational principles of Biology.
cell
When was the compound microscope invented?
1590
Who invented the Compound microscope?
By a Dutch lens maker, Zacharias Janssen
It is the word comes from lēns, the Latin name of the lentil, because a double-convex lens is lentil- shaped.
Lens
Who was the first person to discover a cell?
Robert Hooke
Where did Robert Hooke first observe the cell?
Very thin slices of bottle cork
It is the word that means the six-sided cell of a honeycomb.
Cellulae
This came from the Latin word Cella, meaning “a small room” like where monks lived in.
Cell
What was the first book by Robert Hooke?
MICROGRAPHIA
Who is the Father of Microscopy and Microbiology 16005
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
He use microscope containing improved lenses that could magnify objects almost 300-fold, or 270x.
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
He found motile objects under microscope.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
In a letter to the Royal Society on October 9, 1976, he stated that motility is a quality of life.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
He named these “animalcules”, which included protozoa and other unicellular organisms, like bacteria.
Anton van leeuwenhoek
Lens
Focus Knob
Sample Translator
Sample Holder
Figure 3
Von Leeuwenhoek Microscope Part (circa Late 1600s)
who discovered Vorticella, a protist?
Anton van leeuwenhoek
He was a professor of botany at the University of Jena, Germany.
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
He studied different types of plants under the microscope.
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
he was a professor of physiology at the University of Louvain, Belgium.
Theodor Schwann
He studied several slides of animal cells.
Theodor Schwann
