Scientific method & Cells

Question 1

What are the steps of the scientific method?

Answer 1

1. ask a question
2. make an observation
3. hypothesis
4. preform an experiment
5. analyze the results
6. form a conclusion(valid or non valid)

Question 2

What is the difference between a theory and law?

Answer 2

A theory is an argument, while a law is a fact/non argumentative.

Question 3

What is the traditional cell theory?

Answer 3

1. cells come from other cells
2. all organisms are made of cells
3. cells are the basic unit of life

Question 4

who was the first to discover cells?

Answer 4

Robert Hooke(cork/dead tree)

Question 5

What did Anton Van Leeuwenhoek do?

Answer 5

handmade microscope to look at pond water

Question 6

What is spontaneous generation?

Answer 6

Fake news (once said mice come from corn husks) It states living things come from nonliving things.

Question 7

What did Louis Pasteur do?

Answer 7

Proved spontaneous generation wrong and discovered living things come from living things.

Question 8

What did Schleiden and Shwann do?

Answer 8

• Schleiden(1838) plants
• Schwann(1839)animal tissue is made of cells
• Rudolf Virchow(1858)how cells make more cells

Question 9

What is part of the modern cell theory?

Answer 9

Cells functions and structures are necessary for life

Question 10

Updated discoveries in cell theory?

Answer 10

1. energy flows in cells
2. similar species have similar compositions
3. cells contain DNA

Question 11

What organelles are specific to plants?

Answer 11

cell wall, chloroplast, chlorophyll, large vacuole

Question 12

What organelles are specific to animals?

Answer 12

cilia, flagella, lysosomes, centriole, small/may vacuoles

Question 13

what are the levels of organ ization?

Answer 13

1.atoms
2. compounds
3.organelles
4.cells
5. tissues
6. organs
7. organ system
8. organism