CELL THEORY

Laura LeMay

Wacky Cell Theory!!

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OpBylwH9DU&feature=youtube_gdata_player&safe=active

So What is the Cell theory?

• 1) All living things are made of 1 or more cells

• 2) The cell is the basic unit of structure and organization in living things

• 3) Cells come from other cells

Anton Van Leewenhoek

* first microscope* first to look at small cells

(bacteria/blood….)

(Looked at little things)

Robert Hooke

• Looked at cork cells

• Hooked the term “cell”

Matthias Schleiden

• PLANTS are made of cells

TheodoreSchwann

• Animals are made of cells

• Schwann nerve cell named after him

• (Schwann like Swan, swan is an animal)

Rudolph Virchow

• Cells come from other cells

Leewenhoek looked at little thingsHooke, hooked the term of the cell

Schwann like a swan looked at animalsSchleiden, the other guy, looked at plants

Virchow came along with victory,Saying cells come from cells, now you see

That’s the history of the cell theory.