Just the Basics
What is the basic unit of structure and function in all living things?
What is a cell?
Who observed cork under a microscope and named the structures “cells”?
Who is Robert Hooke?
According to cell theory, all living things are made of what?
What are cells?
What is a microscope?
What is a microscope?
All living things are made of one or more cells.
What is True?
What do cells need to do to keep an organism alive?
What is carry out life processes/functions?
Which scientist concluded that animals are made of cells?
Who is Theodor Schwann?
True or False: According to the Cell Theory, new cells can appear from nothing.
What is False?
Why was Anton van Leeuwenhoek’s work important?
What is he was one of the first scientists to observe living cells/microorganisms?
Plants and animals are made of cells.
What is true?
Are cells living or nonliving?
What are living?
What scientist observed tiny living organisms in pond water and called them “animalcules”?
Who is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
According to cell theory, what is the basic unit of life?
What is the cell?
Which two scientists showed that both plants and animals are made of cells?
Who are Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann?
Robert Hooke invented the cell.
What is False? He observed and named cells; he did not invent them.
Name one thing that all living things have in common.
What is they are made of cells?
Which scientist concluded that plants are made of cells?
Who is Matthias Schleiden?
What part of the Cell Theory was most fought over?
What is where cells come from?
When was the invention of the microscope?
What is the early 1600s?
The Cell Theory has not been added to since it's beginining.
False. Cell theory is a well-supported scientific theory that has changed as scientists gain new knowledge.
Why are cells called the “building blocks” of life?
What is because all living things are made of cells?
Which scientist stated that all cells come from existing cells
Who is Rudolf Virchow?
What are the three main statements of cell theory?
What are 1) All living things are made of cells. 2) Cells are the basic unit of life. 3) All cells come from pre-existing cells.
Why did it take many years for scientists to develop the complete cell theory?
What is scientists needed better microscopes and more observations before they understood cells?
Cell theory was developed by one scientist working alone.
What is False? Many scientists contributed to its development.