The Cell
The Cell
The Cell
Prepared by:
Maria Charina L. Madarang, RN, LPT, MAN,MAEd
IMAGINE HOW EARLY SCIENTISTS
MUST HAVE FELT WHEN THEY
FIRST OBSERVED UNICELLULAR
ORGANISMS UNDER THE
MICROSCOPE.
OBJECTIVES
Explain the postulates of
the cell theory
THE CELL THEORY
1600s
ANTON VAN
IN 1673 LEEUWENHOEK (1632-
1723)
:German naturalist
PROTOPLASM by JAN
EVANGELISTA PURKINJE (1787-
1869), Czech physiologist
THEODORE SCHWANN
MATTHIAS SCHLEIDEN
(1810-1882), German
(1804-1881), German botanist
zoologist
1821–1902
1858
In 1858, he concluded that the CELL is
the basic and structural unit of life and
that every cell formed from preexisting
cell
ALL ORGANISMS ARE CELLS ARE THE BASIC UNIT CELL ARISE ONLY BY
COMPOSED OF ONE MORE OF ORGANIZATION OF ALL DIVISION OF A PREVIOUSLY
CELLS; ORGANISMS; AND EXISTING CELL
ACTIVITY