BIOL 360 Lecture 17: Week 3 lecture notes
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Note: these lecture notes were not written, and should not be used, as a substitute for the lecture. Notes are presented here only as an aid to students who missed lecture, or whose notes may be incomplete in certain particulars. Robert hooke was a founding member of london"s royal society. From britain, he first described the cellular nature of plants and the structure of cork. Redi (1660"s) showed that maggots in rotten meat were not the result of abiogenesis. Not everyone believed him, including justus leibig who was a supporter of spontaneous generation. van leeuwenhoek (1670-1720) wee animicules . His fine lenses and detailed observations basically amounted to the discovery of the microbial world. Anton was originally a dutch cloth merchant who turned his handmade microscopes to the observation of protozoa, algae, yeasts, fungi, and even bacteria! Everywhere he looked he found millions of his.
