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Cell Theory
Cell Theory (Including pattern and process components)
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
09/28/2009

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What is a theory?
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An explanation for a very general class of phenomena or observations.
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The cell theory and the theory of evolution provide a foundation for the development of modern biology because they focus on two of the most general questions possible. 

 

What are these two questions?

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1.  What are organisms made of

2.  Where did they come from

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Who used a crude microscope to examine the structure of cork (a bark tissue) from an oak tree?
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Robert Hooke (1665)
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Who was the first person to observe small, pore-like compartments in bark that were invisible to the naked eye? 

 

In what year?

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Robert Hooke

 

 

1665

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Who whas the first person to observe and describe single celled organisms as well as human blood and sperm cells?
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek
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what is a highly organized compartment that is bounded by a thin, flexible structure called a plasma membrane that contains concentrated chemicles in an aqueous solution?
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A Cell.
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Where do most chemical reactions that sustain life take place?
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In the cell.
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Most scientific theories have 2 components, what are they?
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1.  The first describes a pattern in the natural world

 

 

2.  The second identifies a mechanism or process that is responsible for creating that pattern.

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The complete cell theory can be stated as follows...
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All organisms are made of cells, and all cells come from preexisting cells.
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What is a hypothesis?
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A proposed explanation.
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Which Scientist tested the spontanious generation and all-cells-from-cells hypothesis?
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Louis Pasteur.
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Something that can be measured and that must be correct if a hypothesis is valid...
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A prediction
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The sucess of the cell theory's process component had an important implication...

 

what was it?

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If all cells come from preexisting cells, it follows that all individuals in a population of single-celled organisms are related by common ancestry.

 

The same is true of Multicellular organisms

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