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Molyneux-Cell theory
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- CELLS!
- Um yes you do! They are very important!
- Why are we even doing this unit, I don't need to know about cells.
- Well to start out Robert Hooke is the person who named cells. He did this by looking at a cork under a microscope and realizing that it looked like it had little chambers or cells.
- Oh! Can I take a look at what it would have looked like for him?
- Sure! While you look at that I'll tell you a little about Matthias Schleiden. He discovered that every plant is made out of cells.
- Wow! These really do look like little cells. Can we look at plant cells next to see what Shleiden saw?
- Oh that was scientist Robert Hooke!
- We could do that or we could look at the "little animals" or bacteria and protozoa that Anton Van Leeuwenhoek discovered.
- Let's do that! But one quick question. Who discovered and described the nucleus and everything about it?
- Yup! The smallest cellular organism is 1 cell big or it is single celled.
- A scientist named Theodor Schwann figured out how cells were the basic unit of animal structure and function with the information from the other scientists.
- Wait so does that mean that mean that you and me are both made up of a bunch of cells? If we're made up of a bunch of cells then how small can a cellular organism be?
- You're welcome!
- Yup that is something that Rudolf Virchow figured out and contributed to the cell theory. He said that all cells arise or come from preexisting cells.
- If we are both made up of cells then they have to arise and reproduce some how, right?
- Oh Wow! Well thanks for teaching me the cell theory, I understand why we have learn it now!
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