CELL: THE UNIT OF LIFE.

What is cell?

Fundamental,

Structural,

Functional unit of life.

Anything less than a complete structure of cell does not ensure independent living.

Eg virus.

Based on no. Of cells, organisms can be

Unicellular organisms

Multicellular organisms.

Independent existence and performing all essential functions of life is a feature of ?

Unicellular organisms.

Examples of unicellular organisms

Bacteria, amoeba, etc.

Eg. Of multicellular organisms

Fungi, plantae, animalia.

Who discovered dead cell?

Robet Hooke.

Dead cell was seen in

Thin slice of cork cells.

Honey comb like structure.

Who gave term cellula (aka cell)?

Robert hooke.

Who discovered living cell?

Anton Von Leeuwenhoek

(In spirogyra).

Who discovered brain of the cell/controlling unit of cell (i.e nucleus)?

Robert brown.

Who discovered protoplasm?

Purkinje.

Who gave triple helix structure of collagen?

G.N Ramachandran.

G.N Ramachandran was influenced by?

Linus pauling

Who was working on alpha and beta sheeted model of proteins?

G.N Ramachandran.

What does Ramachandran plot provide us?

Confirmational analysis of protein.

Cell theory explains a sense of mystery around

Living phenomenon (i.e physiological and behavioral process).

To understand the