The Characteristics of Cells Review

All things are made up of one or more cells.

• True

• False

All cells are the same size.

• True

• False

All cells come from existing cells.

• True

• False

Who observed thin slices of cork under the microscope and named the boxlike structures "cells "?

• Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

• Robert Hooke

• Theodore Schwann

• Rudolf Virchow

He concluded that plants are made of cells.

• Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

• Robert Hooke

• Theodore Schwann

• Matthias Schleiden

He was the first person to describe actual living cells when he looked at a drop of pond water under a microscope.

• Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

• Robert Hooke

• Theodore Schwann

• Matthias Schleiden

In 1839, he determined that all animal tissues are made of cells.

• Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

• Robert Hooke

• Theodore Schwann

• Matthias Schleiden

In 1858, ___________ proposed that cells could form only from the division of other cells.

• Theodore Schwann

• Rudolf Virchow

• Matthias Schleiden

• Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

It is a protective layer that covers a cell's surface.

• cytoplasm

• cell membrane

• nucleus

• organelle

It is a genetic material that provides instructions for all cell processes.

• cytoplasm

• cell membrane

• DNA

• organelle