THE CELL
CELL THEORY
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He discovered that all animals were made of cells.
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He discovered that all cells come form preexisting cells.
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He discovered that all Plants are made of cells.
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Came up with the term “The Cell.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Theodor Schwann, (born December 7, 1810, Neuss, Prussia [Germany]-died January 11, 1882, Cologne, Germany), German physiologist who founded modern histology by defining the cell as the basic unit of animal structure.
Detailed explanation-2: -Schwann concluded three things that became vital components of the cell theory. First, Schwann concluded that both plants and animals were composed of cells. Second, these cells have independent lives. Third, these independent lives are subject to the organism’s life.
Detailed explanation-3: -Theodor Schwann was an anatomist and physiologist who is best known for developing the cell doctrine that all living things are composed of cells. He established that the cell is the basic unit of all living things.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1838, German scientist Matthias Schleiden concluded that all plants are made of cells. The next year Theodor Schwann, another German, concluded that all animals were also made of cells.
Detailed explanation-5: -By the late 1830s, botanist Matthias Schleiden and zoologist Theodor Schwann were studying tissues and proposed the unified cell theory. The unified cell theory states that: all living things are composed of one or more cells; the cell is the basic unit of life; and new cells arise from existing cells.