Question

Give a brief account of discovery of the cell

Answer 1

Discovery of the cell

Answer 2

✯ Account on Cell Discovery ✯

• ➸ An English botanist Robot Hooks in 1655 examined the slices of a dried section of cork under a microscope.

• ➸ 1839, the German botanist Matthias Jacob Schleiden and the German psychologist Theodor Schwann, together proposed the cell theory.

✯ Postulate of cell theory ✯

• ➸ All the living organisms are composed of cells. It is the basic structural and functional unit of life.

• ➸ All the cells are produced by the division of pre-existing cells. This phenomenon is called reproduction of cells

• ➸ The structure of all the living organisms is determined by the organisation of these small unit called cells.