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Date: ............................................... Name: ........................................................................................................... Class: MYP 5
Title: The Cell Theory
Reference:

Task # 1.1.2 Unit: How is Life Organized?

Key Concept:
Global context: Identities and relationships
Relationships
Statement of Inquiry: Your identity is determined by the relationship between different levels of organization
in your body which, although different in complexity, share patterns and functions with all life on Earth
Assessment Criteria Criterion A

Strand(s) i. Explain scientific knowledge

ATL Critical Thinking/ Information Literacy

Pre-requisites None

The cell theory

Watch the following movies
The Cell Theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dscY_2QQbKU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OpBylwH9DU (TED ED)
Leewenhoek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yDFLzNrh7U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D5Gu_9hEus
Hooke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk3vlhz1b6k
Seeing the invisible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePnbkNVdPio
Louis Pasteur and the theory of Spontaneous Generation:
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Fill in the missing words:

In order to compare our Physical (biological) identity with that of other organisms to understand what
it means to be human, we must understand how organisms are structured, from the simplest to the most
complex level.
Although they vary in form and function, _____________ are the basic building blocks of life.
The idea that cells are the unit of _____________________ and _________________ from which
organisms are made is known as ‘the cell theory’.

The cell theory states:

1. _________________________________________.
2._________________________________________.
3._________________________________________.

Key scientists in the development of the cell theory were Robert Hooke (born on ------------------),
Anton Van Leewenhoek (born 1632) and Louis Pasteur (born 1822)

Robert Hooke was a pioneer of cell biology. He was fascinated by microscopy, and developed a
____________ to observe the structure of cork cells, and measured their size.
He was the first person to use the term _______ to describe the basic blocks of life.

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In 1665 he published a book of all his drawings made using his microscopes: it became the first
scientific bestseller.
Hooke was also famous for discovering the law of ___________ which describes the linear variation
of tension with extension in an elastic spring: The law still bears his name.

Antonie van Leewenhoek

He was born in Delft in the Netherlands. He had no formal training in science, yet he developed a
hobby of making _____________, which he mounted in metal plates to form simple microscopes. He
was able to magnify his specimens up to x240.
He was able to observe blood cells, ______, and _________ organisms in pond water that he called
_______________.

Louis Pasteur
He was a brilliant microbiologist who changed the way that scientists view life. People used to believe
that life could spontaneously generate itself.: that maggots are dead flesh, and bacteria and other
growths could appear from nowhere.
He established that life does not spontaneously generate, and that the bacteria that appear in broth are
microbes freely circulating in ________, which contaminate exposed matter.

Summarize Louis Pasteur’s experiment:

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