BIO 1140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Robert Hooke, Plant Cell, Unicellular Organism

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Robert hooke was doing things differently than his peers at the same period. Most scientists were interested in understanding the sky, planets, stars, so they built a telescope. He built the same tool but he was trying to understand what was going on right in front of him which he can"t see. He called the cells cellulae (= small room). He was looking at the cell wall of each cell making up the cork. 200 years of observations and hypotheses and all of a sudden we went from a very rudimentary observation and a microscope to being able to classify all of life. The cell is the basic and structural unit of life. Cells arise only from division of pre-existing cells. Viruses are not living because they"re not composed of cells. They"re also not able to withstand life on their own, they need a host. That"s why you don"t see them on the tree of life.

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