The Cell (Microbiology)

Recall cards on the cell. The fall of spontaneous generation: Aristotle and pneuma, van Helmont's mice, Redi's 1668 maggot experiment, Needham versus Spallanzani, and Pasteur's swan-neck flasks and Omne vivum ex vivo. Foundations of modern cell theory: biogenesis, Hooke's cork cells, Schleiden and Schwann, Remak and Virchow, the endosymbiotic theory of Mereschkowski and Margulis, and the germ theory of disease from Semmelweis and Snow to Lister and Koch. Unique characteristics of prokaryotic cells: cell shapes and arrangements, the nucleoid and plasmids, 70S ribosomes, inclusions and endospores, membranes and transport, peptidoglycan and Gram-positive versus Gram-negative walls, lipopolysaccharide, the glycocalyx, fimbriae and pili, and flagella and chemotaxis. Unique characteristics of eukaryotic cells: the nucleus and nucleolus, 80S ribosomes, the endomembrane system, lysosomes and peroxisomes, mitochondria and chloroplasts, the cytoskeleton and centrioles, cell walls and the extracellular matrix, the 9+2 flagellum, and mitosis and meiosis.