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WorksheetsThe Weird History of the Cell Theory Quiz
Total questions: 32
Worksheet time: 34mins
Who is credited with coming up with the first compound microscope?
Robert Hooke
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Matthias Schleiden
Zacharias Janssen
What did Anton van Leeuwenhoek discover by looking at dental scrapings?
Viruses
Bacteria
Protozoa
Fungi
Who is responsible for coining the term 'the cell'?
Zacharias Janssen
Robert Hooke
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Matthias Schleiden
What did Robert Hooke compare the little chambers he saw in cork to?
Prison cells
Monk cells
Plant cells
Animal cells
Who discovered that all plants are made of cells?
Zacharias Janssen
Matthias Schleiden
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Robert Hooke
Which scientist studied slides of animal cells and concluded that all animals were made of cells?
Theodor Schwann
Robert Hooke
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Zacharias Janssen
Who reached out to other scientists to work on the beginnings of the cell theory?
Theodor Schwann
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Zacharias Janssen
Robert Hooke
Who didn't subscribe to the thought that cells come from preexisting cells?
Zacharias Janssen
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Matthias Schleiden
Theodor Schwann
Who showed that cells come from other cells?
Theodor Schwann
Rudolph Virchow
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Zacharias Janssen
Who invented rebreathers for firefighters?
Zacharias Janssen
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Rudolph Virchow
Theodor Schwann
Who had a tense relationship with Sir Isaac Newton?
Rudolph Virchow
Zacharias Janssen
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Robert Hooke
Who discovered bacteria by looking at dental scrapings?
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Zacharias Janssen
Rudolph Virchow
Theodor Schwann
Who made the claim that Newton had been inspired by his work in physics?
Theodor Schwann
Rudolph Virchow
Robert Hooke
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Who studied different plant species and realized that they were all made of cells?
Robert Hooke
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Zacharias Janssen
Matthias Schleiden
Who dabbled in a little bit of everything, including physics, chemistry, and biology?
Theodor Schwann
Rudolph Virchow
Robert Hooke
Zacharias Janssen
Which of the following is not a law from cell theory?
x-rays
computers
the light microscope
the scanning electron microscope
Plants have cells but animals do not.
They are both made of one or more cells.
They both come from the same kind of cell.
They both come from a non-living organism.
Was the first person to see cells by looking at cork under a microscope and gave them their name
Hooke
Leeuwenhoek
Virchow
Schleiden
Looked at living cells under a microscope he made
Hooke
Leeuwenhoek
Virchow
Schwann
Proposed that all cells come from other cells
Leeuwenhoek
Schleiden
Schwann
Virchow
Said that all plants are made of cells
Hooke
Virchow
Schleiden
Schwann
Said that all animals are made of cells
Hooke
Virchow
Schleiden
Schwann
Who looked at pond water and coined the term "animalcules"?
Janssen
Schleiden
Leeuwenhoek
Hooke
The cell theory developed from the work of many different scientists. Which of the following statements is NOT part of the cell theory?
All cells come from other living cells.
The cell is the basic unit of all living things.
All cells of living things have the same organelles.
All living things are made up of one or more cells.
The cell theory applies to all organisms, including the two shown below. Which of the following statements describes how these organisms are examples of the cell theory?
The organisms are made up of cells that make their own food.
The cells of the organisms come from other living cells.
The organisms are made up of more than one cell.
The cells of the organisms have cell walls.
