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Robert Hooke was looking at cork cells when he coined the term cell.

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What material did Robert hooke see cells?

Robert Hooke was the first person to see cells. He saw them with a compound-microscope.


What did Robert Hook first see in a microscope?

Cork


In what material did Robert Hooke see cells'?

Yes. Robert Hooke saw cells in cork when he observed it under the microscope. What he actually observed was the cell walls of dead cork cells. He called them cells because they reminded him of the rooms (cells) of monks in a monastery.


Who was the first person to see cells from a piece of cork?

Robert Hookie was the first person to see cells in a cork, the bark of a tree he also then mamed them cells after the laitn term compartment


Robert hooke and cells?

Robert Hooke was the first man to see cells under a microscope.They were dead cells on a cork. Anton van Leevwenhoek was the first to see living cells under a microscope.


Who is the scientist who first saw cork cells?

Robert Hook. He didn't actually see the cells as we know of it today, but identified the magnification of cork as "cell", because it looked like prison blocks.


What did Robert hooke make to see cells?

Robert Hooke made a, Microscope.


Who was the first man to see cells?

Robert Hooke.


Who was the first person the see cells?

Robert Hooke


Who was the first person to see dead cells?

Robert Hooke found cells when he looked at thin slices of cork through a microscope.


What did hooke call tiny rectangular rooms?

Robert Hooke called the basic structural units of life "cells." He observed these microscopic structures in cork under a microscope in the 17th century and likened them to the small rooms or cells that monks lived in, hence the term "cell."


Why was Robert Hooke only able to see plant cells and not animal cells?

Robert Hooke didn't worked on animals .