The Cell An Historical Prospective

The Cell

• An Historical Prospective

Cell Theory

• Who were some of the people who made contributions to the development of cell theory?

• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
• Robert Hook
• Matthias Schleiden
• Theodore Schwann
• Rudolf Virchow

Contributions from Cytology

• How did the different types of microscopy contribute to our understanding of cells?

• Light microscopy
• compound
• phase contrast
• differential interference contrast
• fluorescence
• digital video
• Electron microscopy
• transmission
• scanning
• Scanning probe microscopy

Contributions from Biochemistry

• What important contribution was made by Friedrich Wohler?

• by Louis Pasteur?

• by Eduard Buchner?

• Why do we remember Embden, Meyerhof, Krebs, Calvin and Svedberg?

Contributions from Genetics

• Who was Gregor Mendel and why was he so important?

• What important contributions were made by other geneticists?

• Flemming
• Sutton
• Morgan
• Mc Clintock

Merging Genetics and Biochemistry

• Why is Garrod remembered?

• What did Beadle and Tatum contribute?

• What did Avery, McLeod, and McCarty discover? What about Miescher?

• Why do we remember Hershey and Chase?

Birth of Molecular Cell Biology

• To what do we attribute the birth of molecular cell biology?

• How did Jacob and Monod advance our understanding?

• What happened in the 1970’s?