Discovery of Cell and Cell Theory

Discovery of CellThe discovery of cells and advancement in its study is very closely related to the invention and modernization of microscope.Z. Jansen (1590) : invented microscopeGalileo (1610) :...

Cellular Autonomy and Totipotency

Cellular Autonomy (Cell as self contained units)All the cellular activities are integrated for the survival of organisms, yet the cells are independent in carrying out the fundamental life proce...

Flow of information in cell

Acknowledging the fact, what I have prepared the summary based on this video is only the key supplementary to be delivered among you all. So, to get the confidence and overall concept on this topic...

Differences between Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cell

Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic cellsa. Prokaryotic cells (Pro: primitive; karyon: nucleus)b. Eukaryotic cells (Eu: well; karyon: nucleus)Differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cellsProkaryot...

Cell Wall

                CELL WALLCell Wall is the outermost, thick, rigid, protective and semi transparent covering  surrounding the plant cell except the gametes and zoospores. Besides plant cell it is f...

Protoplasm

Cell Membrane

Mitochondria

Plastids: Chromoplasts

Plastids are double membrane bounded semi autonomous cell organelle responsible to synthesise and store various types of organic compounds.On the basis of structure, pigments and function, the plas...

Plastids: Leucoplasts

Leucoplasts are the colorless plastids found in storage organs.They are found in the parts of plants which are not exposed to light eg: embryonal cell, storage regionsThey are structurally similar ...

Lysosomes

Lysosomes (Gk: lysis: digestive , soma: body) are single membrane bounded vesicular structure primarily responsible for cellular digestion.Discovery : Discovered by Christian de Duve in 1955 in l...