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Cells
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Biology
9th Grade
11/23/2010

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Robert Hook
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in 1665 he used an early compound microscope to look at a thin slice or cork, coined the term cells because of the small chambers he saw.
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Anton Wan Leeuwenhoek
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used single-lens microscope to observe pond water and other things. Calledd the tiny organisms he saw animalcules
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3 Parts of the Cell Theory
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- All living things contain at least one cell
- Cells are the basic units of structure and function in living things
- new cells are produced from exising cells
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Scheiden
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1838 - saw all plants were made of cells
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Schwann
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1839 - saw all animals were made of cells
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Virchow
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1855 - new cells could be produced from the division of existing cells
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