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Zubayr Abulrahman Rashid Unit 2.2 Building Blocks Of Life
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- 1Unit 2.2The Building BlOcks Of Life
- 2Who created the first ever microscope?Zacharias Janssen
- 3What did Zacharias do to discover the microscope?He placed two lenses in a tube. When he looked through the tube, objects appeared larger.
- 4What did Robert Hooke use a microscope for?To Investigate Cork
- 5What did Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek build?He built microscopes that could magnify up to X250.
- 6What did Leeuwenhoek call tiny organisms?He called tiny organisms animalcules (Latin for little animals).
- 7What was special about Leeuwenhoek?He was the first person to discover microscopic living things.
- 8What did the Scottish botanist Robert Brown discover?He discovered that plant cells were not empty boxes.
- 9What was the first structure to be discovered in a cell?Nucleus
- 10What is a mitochondria?the powerhouse of the cell that releases energy from the food.
- 11What are lysosmes?the garbage disposal that gets rid of wastes from the cell.
- 12What is the endoplasmic reticulum?forms pathways that allow materials to move quickly and easily through the cell.
- 13What is the cell membrane?The skin that holds the cell together.
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