•Cell is regarded as a fundamental structural and func�onal unit of life.
Robert Hooke observed dead
cells in a thin cork slice through 1665 a self-made microscope & published this informa�on in his book ‘Micrographia’. He gave the name 'Cell'.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
1674 designed an improved microscope and observed first free-living cells (Bacteria)
Robert Brown, a Sco�sh Botanist 1831
discovered nucleus.
A French Zoologist Dujardin
1834 discovered the semifluid living material inside a cell and named it Sarcode.
Purkinje renamed it as 1840
‘Protoplasm – The First Substance’
Cell Theory M.J. Schleiden T. Schwann A German botanist (1838) A German zoologist (1839) All plants are made up of cells All animals are made up of cells
Commonly presented CELL THEORY
POSTULATES •All living organisms are composed of cells. •All cells are basically alike in structure and func�ons. •The func�on of an organism as a whole is the result of the ac�vi�es and interac�ons of cons�tuents of the cell.
Modern Cell Theory
Rudolf Virchow presented the idea ‘Omnis Cellula e Cellula’ in (1858) and gave the idea that all living cells arise from pre-exis�ng cells. Cell Introduc�on PART - 2
