GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The invention of the microscope led to the discovery of the cell by Hooke. While looking at cork, Hooke observed box-shaped structures, which he called “cells” as they reminded him of the cells, or rooms, in monasteries.

Detailed explanation-2: -First proposed by German scientists Theodor Schwann and Matthias Jakob Schleiden in 1838, the theory that all plants and animals are made up of cells marked a great conceptual advance in biology and resulted in renewed attention to the living processes that go on in cells.