Sinkyone Wilderness State Park lies on the southern portion of the Lost Coast, a 60-mile stretch of wilderness comprising the park and the King Range National Conservation Area. For thousands of years before the first Europeans arrived, the Sinkyone Indians lived on this part of the coast.
1. Schleiden (a botanist) and Schwann (a zoologist): believed that all plants and animals consist of cells. 2. Virchow: cells come from preexisting cells. C. The Cell Theory: three generalizations: 1. All organisms are composed of one or more cells. 2. The cell is the smallest unit having the properties of life. 3. The continuity of life arises directly from the growth and division of single cells. I. Basic Aspects of Cell Structure and Function. A. Structural Organization of Cells. 1. The cell is the smallest entity that still retains the characteristics of life. 2. All cells have three basic parts: a.
The smallest unit for a living thing is a cell, and all living things are made of one or more cells. Living things also evolve with time. Broader definitions of life include things that do not have a metabolism such as virus and other self-replicating molecules.  This means that something like a bacterium is alive, while a virus  is not because it has no homeostasis mechanisms, cannot grow and it  cannot reproduce without hijacking the replicatory equipment of a  living organism.