The Cellosophy Times
Reporter and Editor: Joni G.
BREAKING NEWS!
Englishman's Discovery Leads to the Cell Theory
Robert Hooke, a physicist from England. Born on July 18, 1635, was a scientific prodigy ready to take on challenges that anyone gave to him even at a very young age. Taking on the assignment from Wren and joined the Royal Society, Robert Hooke, age 26, has confirmed his discovery of the cell. He examined very thin slices of cork under a coarse, compound microscope and saw a multitude of tiny pores. He only saw cell walls as this was dead tissue. Because of this association, Hooke called them cells. The term cells stuck and Hooke gained credit for discovering the building blocks of all life. However, Hooke did not know their real structure or function. Hooke's description of these cells was published in Micrographia. His cell observations gave no indication of the nucleus and other organelles found in most living cells. Hooke calculated the number of cells in a cubic inch to be 1,259,712,000, and while he couldn't grab the full effect of his discovery, he did at least appreciate the sheer number of these cells. Hooke recorded all his drawings and observations into Micrographia. After acknowledging the King and the Royal Society, the book covered a wide range of topics from the construction of microscopes themselves, to the spectrum of color, the molecular causes of fire, the crystal structure of objects, and the anatomy of insects. Robert Hooke's discovery marks him as one of the most important scientists, helping biologists and future doctors in the years to come.
The Cell's in the Cork
Robert Hooke's Book: Micrographia
The Compound Microscope used for Observation
Weather Update
Cloudy with a Chance of Theory...
How will this "Theory" Affect Me?
A giant storm of cell theory will hit all continents ALL OVER THE WORLD, from the most remote islands in Indonesia, to the bacteria in your bathtub. Meteorologists and scientists have come together to predict a 100% chance of theory to spread from the North America region, to the Sahara desert, to the continent of Australia. The smartest of world figure's, has figured that the cell theory will rather help define our life, instead of leading us to our doom. "All living things are made of cells, and the cell is the basic unit of structure and function of a living thing, that will help us do the most simplistic or complex things. Like digesting, moving, and the business you make when skipping to the loo", stated by student scientist Joni G. of the North Biology Center. This Theory Storm that has hit, will go on for the next centuries to come affecting all lives positively.The Three Parts of the Cell Theory
What are they?
The cell is the smallest living thing that can perform all the functions of life. All cells of an organism perform essential life processes that are vital to the running of life systems in the organism, which are vital for the existence of an organism. A cell performs all the necessary functions for life, for example, the process of production of energy from food takes place in cells of animals, the process of making of starch from CO2, water and sunlight is done inside all chlorophyll (a pigment) containing cells of plants, etc. All life processes of an organism are performed by individual cells, and due to the combined working of all the cells, a process or an action is performed. Making it clear that the cell is the basic functional unit of life in a cell.
All cells had to come from pre-existing cells. Cells are born from older cells, in a process called cell division. A parent cell divides into two new cells to keep up the process of growth of an organism. This is repairing damages like wounds, injuries, and to replace the parent cell, which had become less efficient in doing its work than the new cells. Production of new cells is vital for the lifespan of life processes of an organism.