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Cell Theory

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 43mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which statement was NOT included in cell theory?

a)

All living things are composed of cells.

b)

Living cells come only from other living cells.

c)

Each cell contains a cell membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus, mitochondria, and endoplasmic reticulum.

d)

Cells are the smallest structure of living things that can perform the functions necessary for life.

2.

Which instrument is credited for helping scientists develop cell theory?

a)
b)
c)
d)
3.

This early cell theory scientist looked in a microscope and discovered "animalcules" in the gunk from his teeth and pond water.

a)

Schleiden

b)

Leeowenhoek

c)

Hooke

d)

Virchow

e)

Schwann

4.

Who discovered and named cells while looking at cork?

a)

Captain Hook

b)

Robert Hooke

c)

Matthais Schleiden

d)

Rudolf Virchow

5.

What was Schleiden convinced of?

a)

All plants are made of cells

b)

All animals are made of cells

c)

All cells are prokaryotic

d)

None of the above

6.

Who noted that all animals are made of cells and helped write the first two parts of cell theory?

a)

Rudolf Virchow

b)

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

c)

Theodor Schwann

d)

Robert Hooke

7.

Who discovered that all cells come from other living cells and had research that lead to the last major principle of cell theory?

a)

Matthias Schleiden

b)

Theodore Schwann

c)

Robert Hooke

d)

Rudolf Virchow

8.

These three scientists together helped come up with the second part of the cell theory (all living things are made of one or more cells). CHOOSE 3 ANSWERS

a)

Schleiden

b)

Leeowenhoek

c)

Hooke

d)

Virchow

e)

Schwann

9.

Robert Hooke, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Theodor Schwann, Rudolf Virchow, and Matthias Schliden were all responsible for what theory?

a)

The Theory of Gravity

b)

The Theory of Relativity

c)

The Cell Theory

d)

The Theory of Continental Drift

10.

All living things are made up of...

a)

cells

b)

tissues

c)

organ

d)

organ systems

11.

What is the basic structural and functional unit of all living things?

a)

atom

b)

cell

c)

bacteria

d)

animalcules

12.

All cells -----

a)

come from other dead cells

b)

come from other living cells

c)

crystallize out of the air

13.

What year did Robert Hooke coin the term "cells"?

a)

1556

b)

1665

c)

1838

d)

1839

14.

Who observed cells dividing under a microscope in 1855?

a)

Schleiden

b)

Schwann

c)

Janssen

d)

Virchow

15.
A plant and an animal are both living things. According to the Cell Theory, what can you conclude about these two very different organisms?
a)

Plants have cells but animals do not.

b)

They are both made of one or more cells. 

c)

They both come from the same kind of cell.

d)

They both come from a non-living organism.

16.
Rocks are not living because
a)
they never move
b)
they aren't needed for humans
c)
they are not made of cells
d)
they don't break down
17.

Zacharius Jansen is credited with the invention of the

a)

cell

b)

microscope

c)

telescope

d)

thermometer

18.

What was A.V. Leeuwenhoek talking about when he used the term "animalcules?"

a)

cells

b)

bacteria

c)

animals

d)

multicellular organisms

19.

How did the scientist who coined the term "cell" come up with it?

a)

He looked at a piece of cork under a microscope.

b)

He saw box-like structures that reminded him of the rooms that monks lived in.

c)

Both choices are correct

d)

Neither choices are correct

20.

A unicellular organism is

a)

an organism made of more than one cell

b)

an organism that is made of many cells

c)

an organism that is made of only one cell

d)

an organism that is related to a unicorn