Discovering Cells Guided Note-taking Worksheet

1. What are cells?

2. When was the first microscope invented?3. What is a microscope?

4. What is the difference between a simple and compound microscope?

5. Who was one of the first people to observe cells?

6. What did Anton van Leeuwenhoek discover?

7. A Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) can magnify a specimen up to how many times?

8. What did Matthias Schleiden discover?

9. What did Theodor Schwann discover?

10. What did Rudolf Virchow discover?

11. Who helped develop the cell theory?

12. What does the cell theory state?

13. What is magnification?

14. How do the lenses in light microscopes magnify an object?

15. What do electron microscopes use to produce magnified images?