Question

Robert Hooke used a microscope to see that cork looked like it was made of little boxes. Anton van Leeuwenhoek saw tiny cells swimming in pond water. Which part of cell theory do these observations best support?

Answer 1

Answer:

TINY CELLS THEORY.

Explanation:

ROBERT HOOK DISCOVER THE CELL

Answer 2

Answer:

"All organisms are made up of cells and products of cells."

Explanation:

• The discovery of cells was delayed till the development of microscopes with good resolving powers and magnification.

• However, in 1665, a British mathematician and physicist Robert Hooke explored the microscopic world under a microscope developed by him.
• And he for the first time observed perforated and porous compartment like structures called "honeycomb" in the remains of dead cells of a piece of cork ( Quercus suber- Cork of Oak ).

• To refer to each empty honeycomb-like compartment, he coined the term 'cell'. And all his findings were published in his book named Micrographia.

• However, the cell represents a misnomer as the living cell is neither hollow nor all cells possess cell walls.

• Later in 1673, Anton Van Leeuwenhoek with the help of a better-improved microscope observed tiny cells swimming in pond water, discovered as the first living cells (free-living Spirogyra cells). He later named it "animalcules".

Hence both these observations best support the fundamental fact of the cell theory i.e. all living organisms (animals, plants and microbes) are made up of cells and cell products which explain the cell as the structural unit of life.