Showing posts with label Who discovered cells. Show all posts
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Friday, April 5, 2013

Who discovered cells, and how?

1. Who discovered cells, and how?
Answer: Robert Hooke discovered the cells. He saw that the cork resembled the structure of a honeycomb consisting of many little compartments. Cork is a substance which comes from the bark of a tree. This was in the year 1665 when Hooke made this chance observation through a self-designed microscope. Robert Hooke called these boxes cells. In this way he discovered the cells.