LIFE SCIENCE

OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE

CELL BIOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
“All animals are made of cells". This fact was discovered by ____
A
Matthias Schleiden
B
Theodor Schwann
C
Robert Hooke
D
Rudolf Virchow
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The classical cell theory was proposed by Theodor Schwann in 1839. There are three parts to this theory. The first part states that all organisms are made of cells. The second part states that cells are the basic units of life.

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: -His studies of the notochord led him to propose that the nucleated entities he had observed were the animal counterparts of the plant cells that had been studied by M. J. Schleiden (1804-1881). Schwann concluded that plants and animals were composed of cells and cell products.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lived 1810 – 1882. 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-5: -In 1839 anatomist Theodor Schwann proposed that all animals are composed of cells. In 1855 biologist Rudolph Virchow added to Schleiden’s and Schwann’s observations and proposed that all living things are composed of cells.

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