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Cells
about cell structures
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Biology
10th Grade
12/02/2009

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The atom is the basic unit of......
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matter
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The basic unit of life is....
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a cell
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Who observed microscopic organisms with a simple microscope that he invented
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek (1600's)
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Who observed cork cells
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Robert Hooke (1665)
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Who observed that many cells have dark structures; nucleus
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Robert Brown (1833)
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Who stated that all plants are made of cells
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Matthias Schleiden (1838)
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Who stated that all animals were made of cells
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Theodor Schwann (1839)
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What is spontaneous generation?
Definition
belief that living things come from nonliving matter.
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Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation by using a ?
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Flask
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Who proposed that all cells come from pre-existing cells
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Rudolf Virchow
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Francesco Redi disproved spontaneous generation by using?
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Meat and maggots
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The cell theory shows that...
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1.) all iving things are made of one or more cells.
2.) cells come from pre-existing cells.
3.) cells are the basic unit of strucutre and function in living things.
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What are the two type of basic cells?
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Prokaryotes
Eukaryotes
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Prokaryotes are what?
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unicellular, smaller than eukaryotes is part of the Kingdom Monera..*bacteria only*...
often have flagella whip like tail or cillia hairlike projections for motility.
No memebrane bound nucleus or organelles(except ribosomes)
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Eukaryotes are what?
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are complex cells
part of kingdom protist, fungi, plant, and animal
has membrane bound nucleus and membrane bound organelles
larger than prokaryotes
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What are the 3 important cell structures?
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cell membrane
nucleus
cytoplasm
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what is the cell membrane
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outer boundary of animal cells, inner boundary of plant cells...
practices selectively permeable regulates what enters and leaves
and supports the cell
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what do porteins do?
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move things across the cell membrane
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What does the nucleus do?
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