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Cells and Heredity 1.1 and 1.3
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Vocabulary to Know
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Microscope
Bacteria/Bacterium
Unicellular
Multicellular
Cell
Tissue
Organ
Organ/Body System
Organism
Specialization
Concepts to Know
The Three Parts of the Cell Theory
1. Cells are the smallest unit of living things
2. Living things are made of one or more cells
3. Cells come from other living cells
Levels of organization of multicellular organisms
Simplest to ----------------------------------------------------------------------Most Complex
Cell ------ Tissue ------ Organ ------ Organ/Body System ------ Organism
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Four Characteristics of Living Things
1. Ability to respond to the environment
2. Ability to Reproduce
3. Organized body plan/structure (to meet its needs)
4. Develop and Grow
People to Know
 Robert Hooke = first to call them cells (1660s)
 Anton van Leeuwenhoek = first to observe unicellular organisms
(1670s)
 Louis Pasteur = conducted experiments using broth and bacteria
to help strengthen the cell theory (1800s)