3. Discovery of a Cell
Earliest Microscopes
• Compound light microscope, mid-1600s
• Observations led to discoveries
• Hooke’s study of cork through microscope (1665)
• Leeuwenhoek saw living things in pond water (1674)
4. Robert hooke
He was born on 1635
He was an English naturalist. He
designed a microoscope and examined
a thin section of a dried cork under it.
He saw honey comb like structures in it
and finally he called them as cells.
The word cell means small room
6. Development of the Cell
Theory (Early 1600’s) - Invention of the first microscope
1665 - Robert Hooke’s observation of cork under compound
microscope
1674 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers tiny living things in
pond water
1838 - Matthias Schleiden states all plants are made of cells
1839 - Theodor Schwann concludes all animals made up of cells
1855 - Rudolph Virchow says that all cells come from existing cells
7. Cell Theory
Observations and conclusions by many scientists
led to understanding of the cell
Cell Theory:
1) All livings things are made of cells
2) Cells are basic units of structure/function
in living things
3) New cells are produced from existing cells
8. Types of Cells
1. Prokaryotes
Very ancient
Very small and simple
Bacteria
No nucleus
11. Cell Structure and Function
Eukaryotic Cell (Animal Cell)
Divided into two parts: nucleus and cytoplasm
Contains many functional “little organs” or
organelles
1. Nucleolus
2. Nucleus
3. Ribosome
4. Vesicle
5. Rough ER
6. Golgi Apparatus
7. Cytoskeleton
8. Smooth ER
9. Mitochondria
10. Vacuole
11. Cytoplasm
12. Lysosome
12. What is the Nucleus?
Control center
– Contains DNA -> Coded set of instructions
Instructions for making molecules like proteins
13. CONCLUSION
I finally conclude that all organism's are
made up of small units called cells. As
are the bricks to a building, so are the
cells to the body of an organisms.