CELL

THE BASIC UNIT OF LIFE

TYPES OF CELL
Animal Cell Plant Cell Bacterial Cell

 Cells comes in many shapes and sizes.

 Cells are the basic building blocks of all living things.
 Human body is composed of trillions of cell.
 They provide structure for the host’s body, take in
nutrients from the foods, convert those nutrients into
energy, and can make copies for themselves.

CELL THEORY
The following three critical points were provided by the
German scientists; Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann.

1. All organisms are made of cells.

2. The cell is the basic unit of life of all living things.
3. All cells come from existing cells.

THE HISTORY OF THE CELLS

Robert Hooke
 Discovery of the cell
 Viewed the cork cells under the microscope
 1665
 Compartment like structures called cells

Henri Milne-Edwards
 1824
 Fundamental structures of tissues - made up of chain or
cluster of glubes that has physiological importance.

Henri Dutrochet and Francois Raspail

 New cells are generated from inside of the old cells
 The cell theory was proposed as incorrrect

Barthelemy Dumortier
 1832
 Binary fission
 Went on the reject previous popular notions
 Cells arise from within the old cells
 The cells are spontaneously generated