who discovered the cell
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" Robert Hooke " discovered the cell.
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- cell was first discovered by Robert Hooke, he observed a cork cell which was basically dead.
- later Anton Von Leeuwenhoek first saw and described a live cell.
- Robert Brown later discovered the nucleus.
- In 1838, Matthias Schleiden, a German botanist, examined a large number of plants and observed that all plants are composed of different kinds of cells which form the tissues of the plant.
- At about the same time, Theodore Schwann (1839), a British Zoologist, studied different types of animal cells and reported that cells had a thin outer layer which is today known as the ‘plasma membrane’.
- Schwann proposed the hypothesis that the bodies of animals and plants are composed of cells and products of cells.
- Schleiden and Schwann together formulated the cell theory. This theory however, did not explain as to how new cells were formed.
- Rudolf Virchow (1855) first explained that cells divided and new cells are formed from pre-existing cells (Omnis cellula-e cellula).
- He modified the hypothesis of Schleiden and Schwann to give the cell theory a final shape. Cell theory as understood today is:
(i) all living organisms are composed of cells and products of cells.
(ii) all cells arise from pre-existing cells.
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