Essentials of Human Anatomy &Physiology
For. Romualdo B. De Guzman,Jr.,
MSA,MBio
Associate Professor II
Chapter2
Plant CellandCell
Physiology
CellDicovery
Robert Brown (1831) a Britishbotanist.
❑identify the central part of the cell and called it the
nucleus and also described the cytoplasm as the
grayish fluid that suspend inside thecell.
Dujardin (1835) a Frenchbiologist.
❑observed that cells are composed of fluid filled with
thick, jelly-like fluids the surround the cells and
called themprotoplasm.
CellDicovery
Robert Hooked (1665)a Britishscientist.
❑He discovered tiny cubical shape mass from the
slice cork on his self-constructed microscope and
named it“cells”.
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek (1674) Dutchscientist.
❑made discoveries concerning protozoa, red blood
cells, capillary systems and the life cycle of the
insects out of his modified compoundmicroscope.
CellDicovery
Matthias Schleiden (1838) and TheodoreSchwann
(1839) a botanist andzoologist.
❑concluded that plants and animals are composed of
cells and developed the theory aboutcell.
Rudolf Vichow1858 by a Germanpathologist.
❑theory was basis of statement that, “all cells must
come only from pre-existing cells which become the
interest of other scientific studies aboutcell.”
CellDicovery
German Engineer Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska in1932.
❑built and developed the first transmission electron
microscope that gives more detail in discovering the
different organelles inside thecell.
James Watson, American biochemist and Francis Crick,
British biophysicist in1953.
❑significant discovery about cells is the DNAstructure.
❑gave way to the science of molecular biology and it is used
in advance study like, genetics, molecular systematic,
organic chemistry, biochemistry andothers.
Cell Definedas:
❑it is the basic fundamental unit of allliving
organisms capable of duplication and
multiplication.
Types ofCells
1. Prokaryotic cells (Greek pro, before, and
Karyon,nucleus).
❑type of cell has no nucleus common characteristic
of bacteria with a size ranging from (1 to 10
microns).
❑outer part is composed of cell wall & plasma
membrane.
❑The cytoplasm contains ribosome, thylakoids and
innumerableenzyme.
❑nucleoid contain single chromosome consist of the
DNA.
Types ofCells
2. Eukaryotic cells (Greek eu, true and karyon,nucleus).
❑a true nucleus common characteristic ofprotists
(unicellular cell), fungi, plants andanimals.
❑consist plasma membrane, cytoplasm and acentral
nucleus.
❑nucleus is membrane bounded containingmultiple
chromatin and DNA insideit.
❑plasma membrane made of phospholipids bi-layer.
❑Cytoplasm contains organelles for control, synthesisand
metabolic processes inside thecell.