AP BIO: The Cell

These are flash cards for my apbiology class. THe test is over cells.

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What are the 4 characteristics of prokaryotic cells?
1. Do not have a nuclear membrane 2. Do not have well developed organelles 3. Found only in the kingdoms monera and protista 4. Considered to be more primitive than any other cells
3 characteristics of Eukaryotic cells?
1. Contain a nuclear membrane 2. Have well developed organelles 3. Found in all other kindoms (Plant, animal, fungi, and protista)
What kind of electron microscope studies the internal structures?
Transmission Electron Microscope
What is the cell theory?
1. All living things have cells 2. Cells are the basic structure of all living things 3. ALl cells come from pre- existing cells
English physician who discovered cells in 1665
Robert Hooke
Who developed the first compound microscope and viewed microscopic protozoans in pond water? Also named them "animalcules"
Antoine van Leeuwenhoek
Who proposed the cell thery in 1855?
Rudolf Virchow
1833: Discovered the nucleus of a cell?
Robert Brown
Function of a cell membrane
Protects the cell as an individual unit and allows materials in and out
Outside later of cells
Cell membrane
Developed in the 1940s- 1950s and allowed magnifications of 10, 000 to 100, 000x
Electron microscopes
2 lenses- an objective lens and an eyepiece
Compound microscope
How does a compound lens work?
Objective lens magnifies the image first, and the eyepiece magnifies that image
What kind of microscope has a single lens?
Simple microscope
Who invented the first compound microscope?
The Jansen brothers