Scientist
Cell Features
Modern cell theory
Characteristics of Life
Characteristics of Life 2
100

First person to use the term cells

Robert Hook

100

True or false 

Some cells are just able to appear out of nowhere.

false

100

All organisms are composed of 

cells

100

smallest unit of life

A cell

100

Obtaining and using energy

Metabolism

200

He looked at pond water and observed living cells

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

200

True or false- Are prokaryotic cells bigger than eukaryotic cells.

False

200

cells are the basic unit of

life

200

Organism made up of one cell

Unicellular

200

A change in the environment

Stimuli

300

proved all plant tissues are made of cells

Mathias Schleiden

300

What are the features of prokaryotic cells?

Cell Wall, the plasma membrane, cytoplasm and free DNA (not in a nucleus)

300

All cells come from 

pre-existing cells

300

Challenge Space: What is Mrs Kolstedt's favorite color?

Green

300

keeping conditions inside the organism within tolerable limits (balanced)

Homeostasis

400

Proved all animal tissues were made of cells

Theodor Schwann

400

What is one major difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell structures?

Eukaryotic cells have a membrane-bound nucleus/organelles and prokaryotic cells do not.

400

All these Scientists contributed to the cell theory

Schleiden, Schwann and Virchow

400
If a human body temperature gets to high they start sweating, this is an example of what characteristic?

Homeostasis. 

400

All Living things grow and _________________.

Develop.

500

Proposed that all cells come from the pre-existing  living cells

Rudolph Virchow

500

What are the three major similarities between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells?

The plasma membrane, cytoplasm, DNA and ribosomes.

500

The cell theory grew out of work of many scientists and improvements in the ______

microscope

500

What are the 8 characteristics of life?

Metabolism 

-Reproduction 

- Response to Stimuli

-DNA

Cells

Homeostasis 

- Evolve over generations 

-Growth and development



500

producing offspring (sexually or asexually)

Reproduction

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