CELL THEORY

Question 1

Human red blood cell

Answer 1

8 micrometer in diameter

Question 2

Smallest free-living cell, size?

Answer 2

mytoplasm genitalium, 0.2-0.3 micrometers

Question 3

1 µm

Answer 3

0.000001 m

Question 4

The largest cell on the human body, size?

Answer 4

ovum, 1000 micrometers in diameter

Question 5

Smallest cell in the human body

Answer 5

sperm cell

Question 6

Largest cell with a metabolism, size?
common name?

Answer 6

Amoeba proteus, 1-5 mm in length
Giant amoeba

Question 7

The largest cell in the world

Answer 7

ostrich egg

Question 8

The average human being is composed of?

Answer 8

100 trillion individual cells

Question 9

how many cells would it tak to cover the area of a dot on the letter “i”?

Answer 9

50 cells

Question 10

discovered cells while looking at a thin slice of cork, year?

Answer 10

robert hooke, year 1665

Question 11

Father of Microbiology, yr?

Answer 11

anton van leeuwenhoek, 1673

Question 12

Used a handmade microscope to observe pond scum & discovered single-celled organisms
He observed microorganisms from dental scrapings and called them?

Answer 12

animacules

Question 13

who disapproved?, Father of Germ Theory, Father of Modern Microbiology

Answer 13

louis pasteur

Question 14

German Botanist concluded that all plant parts are made of cells
yr?

Answer 14

Matthias Schleiden, 1838

Question 15

German physiologist who was a close friend of Schleiden stated that all animal tissues are composed of cells. Yr?

Answer 15

Theodor Schwann, 1839

Question 16

German physician, after extensive study of cellular pathology, concluded that cells must arise from preexisting cells. Yr?

Answer 16

Rudolf virchow, 1858