First postulate
What is the basic unit of life?
The cell
All living things are composed of...
Cells
All cells come from...
Pre-existing cells
This type of cell has no nucleus.
Prokaryotic
This invention allowed scientists to first discover cells.
The microscope
What was Matthias Schleiden, the botanist, looking at when he saw that all the species had cells?
Plants
True or False? Cells can just spontaneously appear.
False
This type of cell has a nucleus and organelles.
Eukaryotic
Who looked at a cork under a microscope and named what he saw “cells”?
Robert Hooke
What was Theodor Schwann looking at when he saw that they were also made of cells.
Different types of animals
What is the name of the experiment by Louis Pasteur that helped prove the third postulate?
Swan neck flask experiment
What is DNA?
Instructions that help make living things