BIO.1A.2

Robert Hooke

• “plant tissues are composed of

  cells”

• “cells only arise from other cells”

• first to name the small

  compartments viewed as ‘cells’

• introduced the idea that animals

  are made up of cells

Theodor Schwann

• “plant tissues are composed of

  cells”

• “cells only arise from other cells”

• first to name the small

  compartments viewed as ‘cells’

• introduced the idea that animals

  are made up of cells

Matthias Schleiden

• “plant tissues are composed of

  cells”

• “cells only arise from other cells”

• first to name the small

  compartments viewed as ‘cells’

• introduced the idea that animals

  are made up of cells

Rudolf Virchow

• “plant tissues are composed of

  cells”

• “cells only arise from other cells”

• first to name the small

  compartments viewed as ‘cells’

• introduced the idea that animals

  are made up of cells

There are several important scientists who made contributions to the cell theory. One is Robert

Hooke who was the first to _________

• discover that plants are made of

  cells

• observe cells by looking at cork

• discover that all animals are

  made of cells

Rudolf Virchow has been given credit for proving that all

________.

• animals contain animal cells

• cells come from pre-existing

  cells

• plants contain plant cells

Theodore Schwann's contribution was that ______.

• all plants are made of cells

• cells were named after small

  boxes seen in cork observations

• all animals are made of cells

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Read the sentence below and answer the question that follows.

Cell theory is one of the central tenants of biology.

Which of the following statements describe cell theory as proposed by the collaborative works of Hooke, Schwann, Schleiden, and Virchow.

• All cells are microscopic.

• Cells come from other cells.

• Cells are difficult to destroy.

• The first cell was eukaryotic.

• The cell is the basic unit of life.