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Explain the
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 Pre-Activity:
Did You Know?

What is the smallest unit of

Life?
 Did You Know?

How many cells make up an

average human being?
The average human
being is composed of
around 100 Trillion
individual cells!!!
It would take as many as
50 cells to cover the area
of a dot on the letter “i”
 Did You Know?
What cell type that can no longer regenerate once used
up?
 Did You Know?
What type of cell can carry Oxygen and supplies it
through the body?
 Did You Know?
What is the smallest cell in nature?
 Did You Know?
What is the biggest cell in nature?
The Cell Theory
Youtube video about Cell Theory

Guide Question:

What were the major discoveries

leading to the creation of Cell
Theory?
What is the cell theory about?
Discovery of Cells
 1665- English Scientist, Robert Hooke, discovered cells
while looking at a thin slice of cork.
 He described the cells as tiny boxes or a honeycomb
 He thought that cells only existed in plants and fungi
Anton van Leuwenhoek
 1673- Used a handmade microscope to observe
pond scum & discovered single-celled organisms
 He called them “animalcules”

 He also observed blood cells from fish, birds,

frogs, dogs, and humans
 Therefore, it was known that cells are found in
animals as well as plants
R-noticed that pollen grains in water jiggled around called
1827-33 - Robert Brown “Brownian motion”
-discovered
Robert Brown the nucleus

Nucleus

Human Cheek Cell

1838 - Matthias Schleiden
A botanist who concluded that all plants are made of cells.

Typical Plant
Cell
 1839 - Theodor Schwann
A zoologist who concluded that all animals are made of cells.

Nerve Cells
1855 - Rudolph Virchow

A physician who did

research on cancer cells and
concluded
“Omnis cellula e cellula”.

“All cells are from other

pre-existing cells.”
Based on the discovery of Cell, if you are a scientist how
would you derive the Cell Theory?
The 3 Basic Components of the Cell Theory :

1.All organisms are composed of one or

more cells.
(Schleiden & Schwann)(1838-39)
2. The cell is the basic unit of life in all living
things. (Schleiden & Schwann)(1838-39)
3. All cells are produced by the
division of preexisting cells. (Virchow)
(1858)
The Cell Theory Complete
The 3 Basic Components of the Cell Theory were
now complete:
1. All organisms are composed of one or more cells.
(Schleiden & Schwann)(1838-39)
2. The cell is the basic unit of life in all living things.
(Schleiden & Schwann)(1838-39)
3. All cells are produced by the division of preexisting
cells. (Virchow)(1858)
How Has The Cell Theory Been Used?
The basic discovered truths about cells, listed in
the Cell Theory, are the basis for things such as:
Disease/Health/Medical Research and Cures(AIDS, Cancer,
Vaccines, Cloning, Stem Cell Research, etc.)
STEM CELL RESEARCH

The research started simple question “How can the

various parts of the human body began forming and
how may it be possible to replicate the processes.
Modern Cell Theory
 Assignment:
on Modern Cell Theory
Modern Cell Theory contains 4 statements, in addition
to the original Cell Theory:
1. The cell contains hereditary information(DNA) which is
passed on from cell to cell during cell division.
2. All cells are basically the same in chemical composition
and metabolic activities.
3. All basic chemical & physiological functions are carried
out inside the cells.(movement, digestion,etc)
4. Cell activity depends on the activities of sub-cellular
structures within the cell(organelles, nucleus, plasma
membrane)
Historical Background:

1.Robert Hooke
-1665 – coined the term cell
2. Corti
– 1772 – saw substance within the cell
3. Fontana
-1781- used the term nucleolus
4. Robert Brown
– 1831 – saw the nucleus
5. Dujardin
– 1835 – used the term sarcode
6. Mattias Jacob Schleiden & Theodore
Schwann
-1839- cell doctrine
7. Strasburger
– illustrated cell division
8. Hugo Von Mohl
– 1846 – used the term protoplasm
9. Max Schulze
– protoplasm as physical basis of life
10. Thomas Huxley
– protoplasm as chemical basis of life
11. Rudolph Virchow
– 1858 – cell generalization
12. Schimper
–1883- used the term plastid.
13. Frederich Mischer
– 1868- saw DNA in pus
14. Benda Altmann
– coined the term mitochondria
15. Camilo Golgi
–1898- Golgi bodies
16. John Dalton
– 1900 -Neuron in owl
17. Palade
– 1900 – ribosome
18. Porter
– 1900 – Endoplasmic reticulum
19. Daniel Davson
– 1900 – Cell membrane as
sandwich like
20. Christian de Duze
– Lysosome in rat
Application:

Explain the Cell Theory in your own

words

How has the knowledge of Cell

Theory help you understand life.
Some Parting Thoughts
Humans are just an intricately designed
community of cells, which must work
together to survive

The next time you will

be asked what is the
essence of life?