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Eye cells of a baby

Moths eye cells

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What do these living things have in common?

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What do these living things have in common?

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What do these living things have in common?

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Unit 2 of textbook Cell Notes 3/12/12 3/13/12

The Cell Theory

All living things, like humans, animals, plants and bacteria, are all made of one or more cells.

Unit 2 of textbook Cell Notes 3/12/12 3/13/12

The Cell Theory

All living things, like humans, animals, plants and bacteria, are all made of one or more cells. The Cell is the basic Unit of all living things.

All living things, like humans, animals, plants and bacteria, are all made of one or more cells. The Cell is the basic Unit of all living things. All cells come from existing cells

(All cells come from parent cells)

A cell is the smallest unit in living things. Some living things like a tiny bacteria is made of just a single cell.

 Other organisms like humans or plants can be made of

trillions of cells.

Because cells are so small, cells were not discovered until microscopes were invented in the mid-1600s.

 A. EYEPIECE
Contains the OCULAR lens
Lens, or system of lenses closest to your eye. Helps magnify specimen

 B. NOSEPIECE
Holds the HIGH- and LOW- power objective LENSES; can be rotated to change MAGNIFICATION.

 K. ARM
Used to SUPPORT the microscope when carried We always hold by base and arm

 J. COARSE ADJUSTMENT KNOB

Moves the stage up and down for FOCUSING

 C. OBJECTIVE LENSES
Magnification ranges from 10 X to 40 X

 D. STAGE CLIPS
HOLD the slide in place

HOLD the slide in place

 E. STAGE
Supports the SLIDE being viewed

 FINE ADJUSTMENT KNOB

Moves the stage slightly to SHARPEN the image

 F. LIGHT SOURCE
Projects light UPWARDS through the diaphragm,
the SPECIMEN, and the LENSES

 G. BASE
Supports the MICROSCOPE We always hold by base and arm.

 H. DIAPHRAGM
Regulates the amount of LIGHT on the specimen

Even before cells were discovered, people wanted to see things far smaller than they could see with the naked eye.

In 1665, one scientist named Robert Hooke built a microscope for himself to look at tiny objects.

One day, Hooke decided to look at a thin slice of cork. Cork comes from the bark of cork trees.

When he looked at the slice of cork under his microscope, the cork looked as if it were made of little boxes. Hooke named these boxes cells, which means little rooms.

Hooke became the first person to describe that living things are composed of cells.

Hooke also looked at feathers, fish scales and the eyes of houseflies, but he spent most of his time looking at plants.

Since plant cells have a cell wall surrounding their cells, it makes plant cells easier to see under a microscope than cells from humans and animals. Because Hooke couldnt see the cells of animals clearly, he thought that only plants were made of cells and humans and animals were not made of cells.

Just ten years after Hookes discovery, a Dutch merchant named Anton van Leeuwenhoek, a major microscope maker (constructed a total of 400 microscopes during his lifetime!) used one of his microscopes to look at pond scum.

With his microscope, he found small organisms living in the pond water.

He also looked at blood cells belonging to different animals and humans, and was the first person to ever see bacteria under a microscope as well (using the bacteria found in his own mouth!).

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