HISTORY OF THE CELL

• Term "Cytology" was given by Hertwig, he also wrote a book on "Cell and Tissue".
• Father of cytology = Robert Hooke.
• Father of Modern cytology = C.P. Swanson.
• Father of Indian cytology = A. K. Sharma.
• CCMB = Centre for cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad.
• Dr. Lal ji Singh = Father of Indian DNA finger printing
• Robert Hooke wrote a book Micrographia, 1665. Actually R. Hooke saw the cell wall not the cell in the thin layer of cork, dead bark of Spanish oak (Quercus suber) through microscope.
• Nehmiah Grew (1682) initiated "Cell Concept" - Plant tissues contain minute elementary structures or cells.
• Malpighi & Grew saw the plant cell and called them sacculus and utriculus (saw the I living cells in plants)
• Antony Von Leevwenhoek, 1674 observed Bacteria, Protozoans, RBCs, spermatozoa etc. (Saw the I living animal cells) - Animalcule
• Term "Prokaryotes" and "Eukaryotes given by Daugherty (Rene + Dutrochet)
• Term "Mesokaryotes = Dodge.
• e.g. Dianoflagllates, they don't have de-oxyribo nucleohistone and undergo dinomitosis.
• Smallest measuring unit in cytology = Angstrom (Å)