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Bio 201 Cell Biology Part 1
Bio 201 Cell Biology Part 1
• He was the first to describe the sperm cells of humans, dogs, rabbits,
frogs, fish and insects and to observe the movement of blood cells of
mammals, birds, amphibians and fish.
• Nehemiah Grew (1641-1721) published microscopic sections through
flowers, roots and stems of plants tissue.
• Mirbel (1807) stated that all plant tissues were composed of cells.
• In many fungi, the cell wall is formed of chitin and in bacteria, the cell
wall contains protein-lipid-polysaccharide complexes.
• Due to the shape of cell walls many types of plant cells as the
parenchymatous, collenchymatous, etc., have been recognised.