GENERAL BIOLOGY

CELL THEORY TIMELINE - stated that the same goes with animals
- Made a conclusion that:
1500’s 1. Cells are organisms and all
organisms consist of cells
 Hans & Zacharias Jannsen
2. Cell is the basic unit of structure for
- Invention of the 1st primitve microscope
organisms
1665
1840
 Robert Hooke
 Albrecht von Roelliker
- discovered a honeycomb-like structure
- sperm and egg cells are also cells.
in a cork slice using a primitive
compound microscope 1845
- saw wall compartments like those of a
monk’s room and coined the term “cell”  Carl Heinrich Braun
- reworks cell theory, calling them the
1670 basic unit of life

 Anton van Leeuwenhoek 1855

- 1st to see living cells in pond water with
a sariling microscope  Rudolf Virchow
- Omnis cellula e cellula -> Greek
1683 - which means all cells come from pre-
existing cells
 Anton van Leeuwenhoek
- also proposed that diseased cells come
- made more discoveries on a microscopic
from healthy cells
level.
- 1st to discover bacteria and protozoa and
called them “animalcules”

1833

 Robert Brown
- discovered nucleus in plant cells

1838

 Matthias Jakob Schleiden

- stated that plant tissues are made up of
cells and cells are the basic building
blocks of plants

1839

 Theodor Schwann