WEEK 1 can differ substantially from one another, they share common

CONCEPT NOTES 1 features.

Bacteria Cell Plant Cell

I. TOPIC: The Cell and The Modern Cell Theory
II. Learning Goals: The students should be able to:

a. Discuss the Modern Cell Theory,

b. relate the development of microscopy to the development of
postulates of the Modern Cell Theory, and
c. prove the postulates of the Modern Cell Theory.

III. Concepts
Animal Cell
1. The Discovery of Cell and the Development of the Modern Cell
Theory
● Cell walls were first seen by Robert Hooke in 1665 as he
looked through a microscope at dead cells from the bark of an
oak tree.
● Antoni van Leeuwenhoek using his wonderfully crafted lenses
and was able to visualize living cells, whom he called “very
little animalcules” and showed to Hooke in 1674.
● Robert Brown in 1831 concluded that nucleus is a
fundamental component of cells.
● Matthias Schleiden (1838) found that all parts of plants was
composed of cells.
● Theodore Schwann in 1839 proved that cells were the basic
unit of animal tissues.
● Rudolf Virchow (1858) proved that all cells come from free
existing cell.

2. The Modern Cell Theory states that:

a. Every living organism is made up of one or more cells.

b. The smallest living organisms are single cells, and the cells are
the fundamental units of multicellular organisms.
c. All cells arise from pre-existing cells.

3. Cells are fundamental to all living

organisms.

All cells are related by their descent from

earlier cells. During the long evolutionary
history of life on Earth, cells have been
modified in many ways. But although cells
 4. Cell as the basic organizational unit of all living things is
observable in both unicellular and multicellular organisms.
Unicellular Organism Multicellular Organism

Campbell 8th Edition

Animals, Plants, Fungi

Reference: Campbell 2017, Pearson 2005, Pearson 2011