NEET BIOLOGY

CELL STRUCTURES AND FUNCTION

CELL ORGANELLE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was the scientist who first named cells when he looked at a slice of cork under a microscope and saw the cork’s cell walls?
A
Robert Hooke
B
Matthias Schleiden
C
Anton van Leewenhoek
D
Thedor Schwann
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.

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