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Cell โ€” Unit of Life

All living things are made of cells; discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665; prokaryotic vs eukaryotic

England ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง 1665 Biology

Key Facts

  1. 1

    Robert Hooke (1665) first described cells in cork; Leeuwenhoek first saw living cells in water

  2. 2

    Prokaryotes (bacteria, archaea): no nucleus; Eukaryotes (plants, animals, fungi): membrane-bound nucleus

  3. 3

    Organelles: nucleus (DNA), mitochondria (energy), ribosomes (protein synthesis), chloroplasts (in plants)

๐Ÿ”ฌ Did you know? The smallest bacterium (Mycoplasma genitalium) has 473 genes; a human cell has ~20,000 genes โ€” yet bacteria were the first life on Earth 3.5 billion years ago

Quick Reference

Category

Biology

Country

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง England

Year / Era

1665

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