How did cells get their name?

Answer 1

The first person to name cells was Robert Hooke, who lived from 1635-1703. He was a mathematician and physicist who also happened to be the first person to make a compound microscope--a microscope with more than one lens to magnify things. He put thin slices of cork under the microscope and saw these sorts of squares. He thought these squares looked a lot like the rooms which monks stayed in, which were also called cells (also just like in a jail). Importantly, he also put other slices of plants, like onions, under the microscope and saw the same sort of square pattern--showing that the pattern wasn't just unique to cork. In reality, what this guy was seeing wasn't really 'cells' but the cell wall. It took other techniques to be able to see cell membranes, the sort of 'bag' which keeps the contents of a cell inside the cell. All cells are surrounded by cell membranes, and only some, like plants also have a cell wall.

Answer 2

The first person to name cells was Robert Hooke, who lived from 1635-1703. He was a mathematician and physicist who also happened to be the first person to make a compound microscope--a microscope with more than one lens to magnify things. He put thin slices of cork under the microscope and saw these sorts of squares. He thought these squares looked a lot like the rooms which monks stayed in, which were also called cells (also just like in a jail). Importantly, he also put other slices of plants, like onions, under the microscope and saw the same sort of square pattern--showing that the pattern wasn't just unique to cork. In reality, what this guy was seeing wasn't really 'cells' but the cell wall. It took other techniques to be able to see cell membranes, the sort of 'bag' which keeps the contents of a cell inside the cell. All cells are surrounded by cell membranes, and only some, like plants also have a cell wall.

Answer 3

Cells came to be named when Robert Hooke was observing sometihng in the microscope and he saw the cells. It is said that the way the cells were formed reminded him of the cells that monks lived in, and that is how the name of cells came to be.

Answer 4

The word cell comes from the Latin cellula, meaning, a small room. The descriptive name for the smallest living biological structure was chosen by Robert Hooke in a book he published in 1665 when he compared the cork cells he saw through his microscope to the small rooms monks lived in.

Answer 5

Because in 1663, Robert Hooke discovered room like structures in a thin slice of cork while looking in a compound microscope. He called the structures "cells," because he thought they looked like tiny jail cells. He also thought they looked like little rooms or compartments, which in that time was called a cell.

Answer 6

Robert Hooke, an English scientist and inventor, was one of the first people to observe cells. In 1663, he observed a thin slice of cork, which is made up of cells that are no longer alve. To Hooke, the empty spaces in the cork looked like tiny rectangular rooms. Therefore, he called the empty spaces "cells," which means "small rooms."

Answer 7

Because a man looked at it from under a microscope and thought it looked like rooms. So he called them cells like a room in a prison.

Answer 8

the guy who found cells (Robert Hooke) thought they looked like prison cells so he named then after that

Answer 9

Cells got their name from the Scientist 'Robert Hooke' he originally named them after the way that they looked