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Keadle JH Science

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Spontaneous Generation and the Discovery of the Cell
Using the information you read in “The Debate Over Spontaneous Generation” and “Discovery
of the Cell and Mitosis”, answer the following questions, and create a historical timeline.

1 All of the following are characteristics of both living organisms and cells
EXCEPT -

A remove waste from themselves

B being composed of complex cells

C grow and die

D extract energy from food

2 Ashley repeated Francisco Redi’s experiment for a spontaneous generation

project. She placed meat in two identical jars. She placed a stopper in the
top of one jar and left the other uncovered. After a few days, Ashley
observed young flies (maggots) on the meat in the open jar. There were
no flies in the sealed jar.

What hypothesis was Ashley trying to test?

F Decaying meat produces maggots

G Maggots prefer one type of meat over another.

H Maggots need a certain temperature to appear.

J Plastic wrap keeps meat from spoiling.

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Which of the following scientists 4 Which invention most influenced

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gave us a modern understanding the development of the cell
of cell reproduction (mitosis)? theory?

A Schleiden F centrifuge

B Schwann G microscope

C Virchow H thermometer

D All of the above J spring scale

In all living things, the presence 6 Which factor contributed most to the
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of what structure supports the development of the cell theory?
cell theory.

F The discovery of many new

species during the last century.
A cell wall
G The development of technology
B cell membrane that can determine chemical
composition
C vacuole
H The increase in knowledge about
D chloroplast rates of evolution.

J The improvement in microscopes

over the last 200 years.

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Living things contain units of structure 9 According to the cell theory, where did
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and function that come from this cell come from?
preexisting units. This statement best
describes the -
A another living cell

B energy from the sun

A cell theory

lock-and-key model of enzyme C a multicellular organism

B
activity
D the nonliving environment
C concept of natural selection

D heterotrophy hypothesis

8 Which statement represents an 10 What type of cell has membrane-

exception to the cell theory? bound organelles?

F All plants and animals are F eukaryotic cells

composed of cells. prokaryotic cells
G
G Cells arise from preexisting cells by
the process of mitosis. H both prokaryotic and eukaryotic

Mitochondria and chloroplasts J neither prokaryotic or eukaryotic

H
contain genetic material and can
replicate.

J The specialization of cells enables

an organism to function

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Create a timeline using the articles. You can cut out and paste each block in the correct location on the timeline. You will tape the
two pages together to complete the timeline.

400 BC 0 1590 1665 – 1740 - 1832

1670 1770

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1838 - 1860 - 1930- now

1953
1855 1890 1933

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Matthias Schleiden concluded

Robert Hooke saw and described
that all plant tissues are
cells for the first time.
composed of cells.
Antony von Leeuwenhoek was
Theodore Schwann concluded
the first to describe protists and
that all animal tissues were
bacteria. .
made of cells.
John Needham claimed that air had a life
These statements were the force and could cause spontaneous
beginning of the cell theory generation.
Lazzaro Spallanzani disagreed and repeated
Needham’s experiments but boiled the soup
longer and used truly sealed conatianers.

Zacharias Janssen creates the

first compound microscope using
lenses he created.

Francis Crick, James Watson, Maurice Barthelemy Dumortier

Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin observed the first evidence
simultaneously discover and describe of cell division in plants.
DNA for the first time.

Francesco Redi challenged the

idea of spontaneous generation
using an experiment with meat
in sealed and unsealed
containers.
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Leo Szilard, Ernst Rusk, and Max Knoll

design and build the first electron Walter Flemming was the first
microscope. This allows for much
scientist to study mitosis and
higher magnification and unlocks a new
describe chromosomes.
world in cell study

Louis Pasteur ended the debate

over spontaneous generation
by using swan necked bottles
that would allow in oxygen but
not microbes in the air.
The earliest descriptions
Robert Remak was able to of spontaneous
observe cell division in animal generation date back to
cells. at least the time of
Aristotle.
Rudolf Virchow completed the
cell theory by stating that all
cells come from other cells.

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