BIO 1130 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Paleozoic, Meiosis, Nucleoid

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

Robert hooke-the custodian of instruments for the royal society of england: he applied the newly invented light microscopes to biological materials, he was looking at the walls of dead cells, which is what cork consists of . Anton van leeuwenhoek discovered and described the really small organisms protists, sperm cells, and even bacteria, organisms so small they would not. Cork is the outer layer of the bark in woody plants; composed of dead cells. be seen by others for another two centuries. Robert brown noticed a discrete spherical body inside some cells; he called nucleus". Matthias schleiden speculated that the nucleus has something to do with the development of the cell. Theodor schwann expanded schleidan"s idea that all animals and plants consist of cells that contain a nucleus proposed that even when a cell forms part of a larger organism, it has an individual of its own.