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invention of the microscope
microscope was invented in the 16th century, I chose this because this allowed for further investigation of cells -
Micrographia published
It was the first book to have images of plants under a microscope and is also why i chose it because people can see what it looks like -
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek coined the term cell
the term cell was created by him and I chose this because this is the term we've been using for century's to describe cells -
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Matthias Jakob Schleiden
helped form cell theory -
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Theodor Schwann
helped form cell theory -
recognized the term nucleus essential
The Scottish botanist Robert Brown was the first to recognize the nucleus as an essential constituent of living cells (1831). I chose it because the nucleus is important -
the idea of spontaneous generation
Louis Pasteur refuted the idea of spontaneous generation. I chose this because this was a new idea that was being refuted so this made a discussion to talk about new ideas -
The conclusions of Schleiden and Schwann represent the offical formation of cell theory
"The conclusions of Schleiden and Schwann are considered to represent the official formulation of ‘cell theory’ and their names are almost as closely linked to cell theory as are those of Watson and Crick with the structure of DNA" -
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal
His neuroanatomical investigations contributed to the
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Waldeyer introduced the term neurons
Waldeyer introduced the term ‘‘neurons’’ to indicate independent nerve cells. I chose this because this turned into neuron theory