BIO 104 Chapter a: notes_-_cell_-_student

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Biology 12 - cell structure & function: chapter notes. The cell theory: although different living things may be as unlike as a violet and an octopus, they are all built in essentially the same way. The most basic similarity is that all living things are composed of one or more cells. This is known as the cell theory: our knowledge of cells is built on work done with microscopes, english scientist robert hooke in 1665 first described cells from his observations of cork slices. A chicken"s egg is a the smallest cells of the microorganism mycoplasma are 0. 3 m in size single cell: 40,000 red blood cells would fill the letter "o" on a page of type. You produce about 2. 5 million new red blood cells every second! Microscopy: the study of cell structure includes the fields of cytology (for cells) and histology (for tissues), whereas the function of cells is studied in cell physiology, biochemistry, and.

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