Cells - Intro to Cells Vocab

Cell

The basic unit of structure and function in any living organism

Robert Hooke

Discovered the first cells by looking at wine corks through a microscope

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Inventor of the microscope

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

Compound light microscope

Uses a series of glass lenses and visible light by up to 1,000 times the actual size

Scanning electron microscope

Creates an image of the outside of a cell by up to 500,000 times the actual size

Transmission electron microscope

Creates an image of the inside of the cell up to 500,000 times the actual size

Prokaryotic cells

Small, simple cells with no membrane-bound nucleus or organelles

Eukaryotic cells

Cells with organelles and a true nucleus

True nucleus

A membrane-bound nucleus