INTRODUCTION TO MICROSCOPY CELL BIOLOGY
MICROSCOPY
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Question
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Who was the person who used his microscope to observe a thin slice of cork, and concluded that the cork was made up of cells?
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Robert Hooke
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Bill Nye
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Matthias Schleiden
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Rudolf Virchow
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Hooke detailed his observations of this tiny and previously unseen world in his book, Micrographia. To him, the cork looked as if it was made of tiny pores, which he came to call “cells” because they reminded him of the cells in a monastery.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cell was discovered by a British scientist, Robert Hooke in 1665. He observed cells in a cork slice under his self-designed microscope and noticed honeycomb like compartments. He coined them as cells.
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