914847033 | Robert Hooke (1665) | English scientist who observed cork under a microscope. First to use the word "cell" in reference to biology. | 1 | |
914847034 | Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) | Dutch pioneer microscopist who was among the first to observe single-celled organisms, sperm cells, red blood cells, etc. Often called the father of microbiology. | 2 | |
914847035 | Robert Brown (1833) | Scottish botanist who was the first to observe nucleus | 3 | |
914847036 | Matthias Schleiden (1838) | German physiologist and histologist who observed that embryonic plants came from just one cell. Also helped formulate Cell Theory. | 4 | |
914847037 | Theodor Schwann (1839) | German physiologist and histologist who formulated Cell Theory. | 5 | |
914847038 | Louis Pasteur (1860) | French microbiologist who modified the Cell Theory to include that cells must come from pre-existing cells. | 6 | |
914847039 | Cell Theory | All organisms have 1 or more cells; the cell is the basic unit of structure for all cells; all cells must come from pre-existing cells. | 7 | |
914847040 | Light Microscope | (Wheat rust) | ![]() | 8 |
914847041 | Fluorescence Microscopy | (Image of a neuron) | ![]() | 9 |
914847042 | SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) | (Fruit fly) | ![]() | 10 |
914847043 | TEM (Transmission Electron Microscope) | (Section of a nerve) | ![]() | 11 |
914847044 | Prokaryotes | Cells which do not contain a nucleus | 12 | |
914847045 | Eukaryotes | Cells which contain a nucleus | 13 | |
914869291 | Average size of cells | 5-20 μm | 14 | |
914869292 | Minimum resolution by naked eye | 200 μm | 15 | |
914869293 | Minimum resolvable by light microscope | 200 nm | 16 | |
914869294 | Minimum resolvable by electron microscope | 0.2 nm | 17 | |
914884747 | DNA | genetic information store | 18 | |
914884748 | Symbiosis | the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent. As in when one benefits, so does the other, and vice-versa. | 19 | |
914884749 | Endosymbiotic theory | The theory that several key organelles of eukaryotes originated as symbioses between separate single-celled organisms. | 20 | |
914884750 | Mitochondria | Organelle that harnesses the energy from oxidation of food molecules to produce ATP | 21 | |
914884751 | Aerobic organisms | Organisms that can use oxygen for cellular respiration. | 22 | |
914884752 | Anaerobic organisms | Organisms that cannot live in oxygen-rich environments. | 23 | |
914884753 | Chlorophyll | Green pigment in chloroplasts | 24 | |
914884754 | Photosynthesis | the process of using the energy from sunlight to create energy-rich sugar molecules. | 25 | |
916287945 | Chloroplasts | The primary organelle that takes place in photosynthesis | 26 | |
916287946 | Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) | site at which most cell membrane components and materials destined for export from the cell are made. | 27 | |
916287947 | Golgi Apparatus | receives and/or modifies molecules made in ER before preparing them for excretion | 28 | |
916287948 | Lysosomes | Where intracellular digestion occurs. | 29 | |
918324572 | E. Coli | Model bacteria which contributed to DNA replication, gene transcription, translation | 30 | |
918324573 | Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) | Minimal model eukaryote which contributed to the understanding of the cell cycle | 31 | |
918324574 | Arabidopsis thaliana | Model plant to which all flowering plants are closely related | 32 | |
918324575 | Drosophila melanogaster ("fruit fly") | Model animal which contributed to genetics development | 33 | |
918324576 | C. elegans ("the worm") | first animal genome to be sequenced; location, lineage and fate of every cell in embryo, larva and adult is known | 34 | |
918324577 | Mouse | Model mammal | 35 |
Alberts' Essential Cell Biology Chapter 1 Flashcards
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