UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DEL ESTADO DE MEXICO

FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS
LICENCIATURA EN BIOTECNOLOGÍA

BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR
TEORIA CELULAR

ALUMNO: MARTINEZ LANDRY DIEGO PAUL

DOCENTE: DR. EN PH RICARDO LARA RAMÍREZ

GRUPO A PRIMER SEMESTRE

CICLO-ESCOLAR 2021-B
A unifying concept: the history of cell theory

With the creation of the microscope at the start of the seventeenth century led to a new
world of investigation, this leads us to

-Athanasius Kircher in 1658 who displayed that a lot of living organisms develop in
decaying tissue.

- Around the same time, Dutch naturalist Jan Swammerdam described oval red blood
corpuscles, he also discovered that a frog embryo is also made up of globular particles.

-In 1676, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, concludes that some microorganisms observed
under his microscope, are motile, and it is assumed that motility is the same as life.
Nevertheless, the first description of the cell is linked to

- Robert Hooke, who in 1665, published “Micrographia”, a very important piece dedicated
to the microscope, and coined the term “cell”.

-The theory of spontaneous generation was something that seemed to be more likely,
because of the discovery of an entire world of microscopic living beings, but this was
disproved in 1769 by Lazzaro Spallanzani in and other researchers, in which they showed
that an organism derives from another, or many others.

- A century later, Louis Pasteur put the final nail in the coffin to the spontaneous
generation theory.

-‘There is one universal principle of development for the elementary parts of organisms...
and this principle is in the formation of cells’’.

-In 1781, Felice Fontana glimpsed the nucleus in epithelial cells, and then in

-1831, a Scottish man by the name of Robert Brown, was the first to acknowledge the
nucleus as a fundamental part of the cell. In the meantime, much needed improvements
were being made to the microscope.
-Mathias Jakob Schleiden in 1838 suggests that every possible structural part of the
plants Is made of cells, the following year, Theodor Schwann comes to a very similar
verdict, but this time with animals.

-Another theory emerges, named “free cell formation”, this theory is like the spontaneous
generation, but again, refuted in the 1850s, by Robert Remak, Rudolf Wirchow and Albert
Kolliker.

- The basic constituents of the cell were considered to be a wall or a simple membrane,
a viscous substance called ‘‘protoplasm’’ (a name now replaced by Köl-liker’s term
‘‘cytoplasm’’. With the invention od the oil immersion lens in 1870, the term endoplasmic
reticulum mitochondria were observed by several authors and named by

-Carl Benda in 1890, the same year in which Camillo Golgi discovered the intracellular
apparatus , which is now obvious where the name came from.

-‘‘Chromatin’’ was a term made by Walther Flemming describing ribbons like structures
in the nucleus back in 1882, he also introduced the term ‘‘mitosis’’.

-In October 1886, the Swiss embryologist Wilhelm His put forward the idea that the
nerve-cell body and its prolongations form an independent unit. Waldeyer then
introduced the term ‘‘neurons’’.

Mazzarello. P. May 1999: A unifying concept: the history of cell theory. Nature cell biology | vol
1| E13-E15.