CELL THEORY

CELL THEORY PRINCIPALS

• All living things are made up of cells.
• All existing cells are made up of other cells
• The cell is the most basic unit of life.

THE CREATORS OF THE CELL THEORY AND WHAT THEY DID.

• Hooke: he was the first to identify and name cells
• Leeuwenhoek: used better lenses to see cells in more detail.
• Schleiden: the first to note that plants are made of cells.
• Shwann: the first to discover that all living things are made of cells.
• Virchow: proposed that all living cells come from other cells.

PROKARYOTIC

• Does not have a nucleus or other membrane-bound organells
• DNA is suspended in cytoplasm
• All of them are microscopic single-celled organisms.

EUKARYOTIC

• Have nucleus and other membrane-bound organells
• The nucleus contains genetic information
• Can either be single or multi celled organisms.