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How did Robert hooke discover cells?

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Robert Hook discovered cells by looking through a microscope at a thin piece of cork. He was able to observe the cork cells, which looked like little individual chambers, so he called them cells, and the name has stuck ever since.

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Robert Hooke (1635-1703), an Englishman , first discovered the cell in 1664 while examining a slice of cork under a microscope . Hooke observed that a slice of cork is made up of tiny honey-comb like compartments, arranged one on top of the other. He called these compartments ' CELL '. It was much later that scientists discovered that living things are made up of cells .

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He found them inside a piece of dead cork with a microscope. He was looking at this piece of cork because King Charles II asked him to.

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robert hooke discovered dead cells of cork in 1665 by an microscope,

he was asked to watch a bark of cell by king charles

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