Characteristics of Cells

The region enclosed by the cell membrane that includes the fluid and all of the organelles.

• organism

• cell

• cell membrane

• cytoplasm

• organelle

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Is the smallest functional and structural unit of living organisms.

• organism

• cell

• cell membrane

• cytoplasm

• organelle

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Is any living thing.

• organism

• cell

• cell membrane

• cytoplasm

• organelle

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Is a protective layer that covers a cell's surface and acts as a barrier between the inside of a cell and the cell's environment.

• organism

• cell

• cell membrane

• cytoplasm

• organelle

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Is a small body in a cell's cytoplasm that is specialized to perform a specific function.

• organism

• cell

• cell membrane

• cytoplasm

• organelle

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First person to describe cells as they appear under a microscope.

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Robert Hooke

• Matthias Schleiden

• Theodore Schwann

• Rudolf Virchow

First person to actual describe living cells when he looked at a drop of pond water under a microscope.

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Robert Hooke

• Matthias Schleiden

• Theodore Schwann

• Rudolf Virchow

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Concluded that plants are made of cells.

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Robert Hooke

• Matthias Schleiden

• Theodore Schwann

• Rudolf Virchow

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Concluded that animal tissue are made up of cells.

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Robert Hooke

• Matthias Schleiden

• Theodore Schwann

• Rudolf Virchow

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Supported Remak's discoveries on cell division and concluded that all cells come from existing cells.

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Robert Hooke

• Matthias Schleiden

• Theodore Schwann

• Rudolf Virchow

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