BIOL 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Animalcule, Cell Theory, Theodor Schwann

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 2020
• Professor: Patrice Cote

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Consequences of cells being small: surface to volume ratio is maximized to promote the exchange of genes, bs* The consequence in that is that cell biology is reductionist; meaning we must assume that the knowledge of the parts can explain the whole. First to describe many single celled organisms such as protists (animalcules) Cell theory (1800s: all living things consist of one or more cells, the cell is the structural unit of life, cells can only arise from existing cells. At the molecular level every event is triggered automatically by the occurrence of another event.