The Cell – The Hidden Kingdom

Answers:
1)) What did Van Leeuwenhoek do for a living? He was a fabric merchant

2) What did he use that can be considered a simple microscope? He use a

minuscular glass to see 50x bigger to see cells

3) What was his first microscope made of? Was it a big device? It consisted of
copper construction with handmade lenses and was notably compact when
compared to the microscopes we possess today.

4) Where did he look for things to see in his microscope? While he was
examining a textile, he observed the cells.

5) What was his claim to fame? What is he known for?Robert Hooke was the
first person to see the bacteria and the creator of the first microscopie

6) What are a few examples of things that he used his microscope to see?he
saw cork,glass,plants,cores etc.

7) What did he believe about what was inside a sperm cell? He thought that
there was a small man inside and after getting into the egg it began to grow.

8) In Hook’s book entitled Micrographia, what did he call the small boxlike
structures he saw through his microscope?he call him cells because he
reminded him the cells of the monasteries

9) When using his microscope for the first time, did he see these “animalcules”
that Leeuwenhoek had described seeing? When Robert Hooke first observed cells
in cork through his microscope, he described them as small compartments resembling
honeycomb cells
10) What is meant by the term spontaneous generation he tought all of thi
world spawn spontaneous without any explication

11) What did Robert Brown discover? Remember he was a plant guy looking at
the sex life of orchids!he saw who all of the cells have nucleus

12) Jackson Lister tried to solve the technological problem of looking deeper
into the cell by creating what type of microscope?He create a achromatic
microscope
13) Theodor Schwann made what statement that connected animals and
“vegetables? stating that all living organisms, including animals and plants,
are composed of cells.

14) What did Louis Pasteur do in the 1800’s to win a scientific competition
where he won 2000 Francs? Where did he think the microbes came from that
ended up in the flask?he disproved the theory of spontaneous generation

15) What did Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann formulate together?
What did it state? Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann together
formulated the cell theory. The cell theory states that all living organisms are
composed of cells, cells are the basic units of structure and function in living
organisms,

16) Who was Robert Virchow and what did he donate to the world of science
(what did he discover)? Rudolf Virchow was a German pathologist and
physician, not Robert. Rudolf Virchow is renowned for his contributions to the
field of medicine and cell biology.