LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Anton von Leeuwenhoek was the first one who discovered free-living cells of algae in water in 1674. Anton von Leeuwenhoek invented the compound microscope and was the first to see free-living cells.

Detailed explanation-2: -Anton Van Leeuwenhoek discovered living cells.

Detailed explanation-3: -Leeuwenhoek is universally acknowledged as the father of microbiology. He discovered both protists and bacteria [1]. More than being the first to see this unimagined world of ‘animalcules’, he was the first even to think of looking-certainly, the first with the power to see.

Detailed explanation-4: -Robert Hooke discovers dead cells using early microscope. Anton von Leeuwenhoek develops a more powerful microscope that allows him to see living cells like bacteria.