OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
CELL BIOLOGY
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Question
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Who discovered and named cells?
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Captain Hook
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Robert Hooke
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Zacharias Janssen
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Rudolf Virchow
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -English scientist Robert Hooke published Micrographia in 1665. In it, he illustrated the smallest complete parts of an organism, which he called cells.
Detailed explanation-2: -In fact, it was Hooke who coined the term “cells": the boxlike cells of cork reminded him of the cells of a monastery.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first time the word cell was used to refer to these tiny units of life was in 1665 by a British scientist named Robert Hooke. Hooke was one of the earliest scientists to study living things under a microscope.
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