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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 |