Cells - Intro to Cells Vocab
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Cell
The basic unit of structure and function in any living organism
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Robert Hooke
Discovered the first cells by looking at wine corks through a microscope
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Inventor of the microscope
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Cell theory
All living things are made of cells, cells are the basic units of structure and function in all living things, and all cells come from other cells
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Compound light microscope
Uses a series of glass lenses and visible light by up to 1,000 times the actual size
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Scanning electron microscope
Creates an image of the outside of a cell by up to 500,000 times the actual size
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Transmission electron microscope
Creates an image of the inside of the cell up to 500,000 times the actual size
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Prokaryotic cells
Small, simple cells with no membrane-bound nucleus or organelles
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Eukaryotic cells
Cells with organelles and a true nucleus
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True nucleus
A membrane-bound nucleus
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