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| Robert Hooke | examined thin cork slices with a compound light microscope and saw boxlike structures that he called cells |
| Anton van Leeuwenhoek | first to describe single celled organisms. However, he did not realize that he was seeing single celled organisms |
| Robert Brown | coined the term nucleus when he discovered that plant cells contained a small dense round body |
| Matthias Schleiden | stated all plants are made of cells |
| Theodor Schawann | stated that all animals are made of cells |
| Rudolf Virchow | all cells arise from preexisting cells |
| unicellular organism | single celled organism |
| Henry Dutrochet | stated all living things were made of cells |
| Johannes Purkinje | coined the term protoplasm |
| protoplasm | the jellylike material that fills the cell |
| Max Schultz | defined protoplasm as the "physical basis of life". All cells have protoplasm. |
| Felix Dujardin | recognized the existence of single celled organisms. |
| Cell division | the process by which new cells arise from other living cells |
| Prokaryotic cells | cells without a nucleus |
| Eukaryotic cells | cells with a nucleus and other membrane bound organelles |
| surface area to volume ratio | limits cell size |
| microscope | instrument that led to the discovery of cells |
| organelles | specialized membrane bound internal structures in cells |
| Cell wall | gives plant cells their shape and provides cell protection |
| Nucleus | cell brain |