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The Invention Of The Microscope
Before the microscope was invented the world was oblivious to the world of what we could not see at that level. i think this discovery was important because without it we wouldnt even be able to see those things that arent visible. -
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The First Discoveries
The first discoveries made were baby steps to what is down the line in the future. The Jesuit Priest Athanasius Kircher showed in 1658 that maggots and other similar living creatures developed in decaying tissues. In the same exact time period Jan Swammerdam discovered that a frog embryo consists of globular particles. this is important because this is the start of the rest of the discoveries we made. -
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The Nucleus
Felice Fontana was the first to see the nucleus in 1781 but was not seen in both plant and animal cells until the early 1800's. Years later after Felice, Robert Brown was the first to state that the nucleus was important constituent of living cells. this is important because the nucleus is the main part of the cell and its important we know what it is. -
The Cell Theory Is Born
The cell theory is made by a group of scientists, Theodor Schwann, Matthias Schleiden and Rudolph Virchow. The cell theory is states that all living things are made up from cells, cells are the basic unit of structure and the basic unit of reproduction in all organisms. this is important because without it we wouldnt know this point of view on cells.. -
Nerve Cells
In the early 1870's Joseph Gerlach proposed that sensory and motor cells of the right and left halves of the spinal cord were linked by anastomoses, in all of the central nervous system, nerve cells established anastomoses with each other through a network formed by the minute branching of their dendrites. this is important becasuse the network/reticulum was an essential element of grey matter that gives a system for anatomical and functional communications. -
Cell Membrane
The cell theory stimulated a different approach to biological problems. this is important because after this discovery the cell was no longer only seen as the basic units of life, it was seen as the element of pathological process. After Schleiden and Swann’s formulation of cell theory, the basic constituents of the cell were considered to be a wall or a simple membrane. -
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The Neuron Theory
The neuron theory became popular at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. The neuron theory clashed with the cell theory a little bit because it stated that nerve tissue was made of individual cells, which are genetic, anatomic, functional and trophic units. this discovery was important because before it, it was impossible to determine the relationships between cell bodies and nervous fibers.