The Cell Theory

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  • Period: 1500 to

    Theory:

    Spontaneous Generation: life arose abruptly from inanimate matter.

  • Microscope

    Zacharias Jenssen invented the microscope
  • Discovery of the Cell

    Discovery of the Cell

    Robert Hooke discovers the cell by observing them in a microscope. coming from a cork tree.

  • Sighting of the first living cell

    Antoin Von Leewenhock looks at pond water and sights the first living cell

  • Antoin Van Lockwenhock made more discoveries,

    (including the first protozoa and bacteria ever seen.)

  • Discovery of the nucleus in plant cells

    made by Robert Brown

  • Realization

    pMattrus Shleiden realizes plants are made up of cells

  • Second Realization

    Theodore Shwann realizes animals are also made up of cells

  • Discovery Sperm and eggs are also cells

    (made by Albercht Von Roelliker)

  • Rework of the cell theory

    Carl Heinrich Brown reworks the cell theory, calling them the basic unit of life.

  • Important proposition

    Rudolf Virchow proposes that all cells come from other cells

  • Evolution Point of VIew

    August Wersmann amplifies the information by Virchow, from a perspective point of evolution, highlighting that there is an interrupted constant between modern and primitive cells.