SCIENTISTS
Cards (10)
- Observed nature directly. He classified all known organisms as either plants or animals.
- Produced the first compound microscope by lining up 2 lenses.
- Observed living matter from a piece of cork through a compound microscope, which reveals empty cells. He is the first to call the spaces in the cork “cells” which means little rooms.
- Discovered that plants were made of cells.
- States “all animals are made of cells.”
- Develops an intense purple dye, which is used to stain slides.
- states that “Where a cell exists, there must have been a preexisting cell.”
- Proposed the unified cell theory
- Father of Microbiology
- Father of Taxonomy