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Cell the unit of life class 11 neet (Part-1 by UK sir)

 Cell the Unit of life 

- C e l l -

Defination:



•      Structural and functional unit of life.

•      Cell must have independent existence.

•      Can able to perform all essential functions of life.

•      Cell is a mass of protoplast covered by a semipermeable membrane and can perform all life activity.

•      Cell is an open system.


If you want to know about life: 

Go to this link:


https://lifemeaning7.blogspot.com/2018/02/what-is-life.html


 


Type of Cell
Type-of-cell


History :

 

•      Robert Hooke (1665) : coined the term cellulae , in the Book Micrographia, Observe dead cell in Oak tree cork

•      Anton VonLeeuwenhoek (1674) : discover Living Cell in protozoan cell in pond water, tartar of teeth, RBC in blood etc

•      Robert Brown1831: discover Nucleus in root cell of Orchids.

•      J .E. Purkinjee 1839: coined term protoplasm

•      Huxley (1868): termed “Protoplasm is the Physical basis of Life”

•      Mathias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann 1839  : Formulated Cell Theory.

•      Rudolf  Virchow 1855: Proposed – “Omnis Cellula e Cellula”

 

Cell Theory:  By Schleiden & Schwann  (1839):

 

•      All living Organism made up of Cell and their product.

•      Cell –small mass of protoplasm, nucleus, plasma membrane and may or may not with cell wall.

•      All cells are same basically in their chemistry and physiology.

•      The activity of organism is sum total activity of all cells.

•      All cells developed from their pre existing cells.

 

Modern cell theory: (Cell doctrine or Cell Principle)

 

•      Body of all living organism made by cell or cells or their products.

•      Cells are structural units of life.

•      Cells are functional units of living organism.

•      Cells can survive independently but Organelles can’t.

•      All cells of one organism have a fundamental similarity in structure, chemical composition and metabolism.

•      All Life activity is performed by cell.

•      Cells may get modified according to their function.

•      Multiplication of cell leads to Growth of an organism or reproduction.

•      Genetic information stored and expressed inside cell.

•      Life transform from one generation to another in the form of a living cell.

•      New cell must arise from its preexisting cell.

•      Cells are totipotent unless they become specialized.

Size of Cell :

*        Cells are of Variabe size.

*        Mycoplasma(PPLO) Smallest: 0.1-0.5 micrometer(µm)

*        Bacteria  -   3-5 µm

*        Multicellular Eukaryotes -  5-100 µm

*        Human RBC -7 µm

*        Muscle cell   -  1-40 mm long and 30-80 µm wide

*        Nerve cell   -  upto 90 cm

*        Plant fiber cell like  Cotton- 4cm, Jute -  30-90 cm

*        Eggs are largest. 

*        Hen Egg - 60/45 mm

*        Ostrich Egg 170/150 mm

cell-size


Shape of Cell:

Shape-of-cell
Shape-of-cell


*        Cells are of variable shaped.

*        Disc like, polygonal, columnar, thread like , amoeboid, cuboid,  irregular etc

*        Ex- Polygonal cell can be seen in plants, Fiber cell of plants are thread like, epithelial cells are Column like etc.

Types: on the basis of Division

*        According to division power they are of 3 types:

1.      Un differentiated (stem cells):

- with power of division or totipotency.

-In plants they can be meristematic cells present in root tip, shoot tip, cambium etc.

-In Human example of stem cell is bone marrow cells.

2. Differenciated or Post Mitotic Cells:

- specialized to perform specific functions. Change in shape and size and further don’t divide.

3.De-Differentiated cell:

-Loose their specialization and again start divide e.g.-  Cork cambium. They gain the power of Division.


If you want to know about life: 

Go to this link:


https://lifemeaning7.blogspot.com/2018/02/what-is-life.html


" Feel Free to ask in Comment session, I will answer.  ... UK Sir "


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