Virus was first discovered by Dmitri Ivanowsky in 1892. He recognised an infectious agent, which caused tobacco mosaic disease and were smaller... View Article
Gottlieb Haberlandt discovered totipotency. He is known as the father of plant tissue culture. He gave the idea that plant cells are totipotent... View Article
Camillo Golgi discovered Golgi apparatus in 1898. It was named after him. Golgi bodies are found in the eukaryotic cells and are involved in the... View Article
The term taxonomy was coined by A. P. de Candolle. One of the earliest attempts to classify plants was done by Aristotle, who divided plants into... View Article
George E. Palade discovered ribosomes in 1955. He identified them as small particles present in the cytoplasm, which often remain associated with... View Article
The term plasmolysis was coined by De Vries. Plasmolysis is the process by which the cell loses water, when placed in the hypertonic solution.... View Article
Nucleic acid was discovered by Friedrich Miescher in 1868 and he named it ‘nuclein’ because he isolated it from the nuclei of white blood cells.... View Article
Heinrich Wilhelm Waldeyer coined the term ‘neuron’ in 1891 and described it as the basic functional unit of the nervous system. Purkinje cells... View Article
Monera was first proposed as a separate group of organisms by Ernst Haeckel in 1866. He included a few eukaryotic organisms too along with... View Article
Guttation was discovered by Burgerstein in 1887. Guttation is the oozing out of the xylem sap as a drop, at the tip or edges of leaves through... View Article
Glyoxysomes were discovered by Beevers and Breidenbach. Bill Breidenbach was Beevers' postdoctoral fellow, he demonstrated that the enzymes for... View Article
Not all bacteria require oxygen. Only the aerobic bacteria require oxygen to grow and develop. Explore More: Bacteria Cell Stay tuned with... View Article
No. Bacteria cannot invade the cells because these microbes are larger in size compared to a virus. Explore More: Difference Between Virus And... View Article
No. Plasmodesmata is absent in bacteria and in other prokaryotic cells. Plasmodesmata are microscopic channels, which are present only in plant... View Article
No. Golgi apparatus is absent in bacteria and in other prokaryotic cells. Explore More: Bacteria Cell Stay tuned with BYJU’S to learn more in... View Article
Yes. The cytoskeleton is present in both bacteria and archaea, which functions in cell division, cell motility and other cellular activities.... View Article
Yes. Most of the bacteria and other prokaryotes comprise circular chromosomes with circular DNA molecules. Explore More: Bacteria Cell Stay... View Article
No. Cilia are absent in bacteria and other prokaryotic cells. These motile organelles are found only in eukaryotic cells. Explore More: Bacteria... View Article
Yes. All bacteria cells comprise a cell wall composed of peptidoglycan. These cell walls are different from the multicellular eukaryotes cell... View Article
Yes. All bacteria cells comprise chromatin and are found within the membrane-free region called the nucleoid. Explore More: Bacteria Cell... View Article
