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Where did Hooke get the word cell which he applied to the boxes he saw thrugh his microscope?
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∙ 13y ago
When Hooke looked at the cork cells through his microscope, he noticed that they looked like individual little chambers, and another word for chambers is cells, so that's why he called them cells.
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What did Robert Hooke use to view cells?
Robert Hooke first viewed cells with a microscope. He began calling them cells because they resembled the cells in which monks lived and worked.
What was developed after Robert Hooke?
the cell was "invented" cause when he looked through the microscope, he called the tiny boxes cells.
How did Robert Hooke find about cell?
Robert Hooke used a microscope to examine a piece of cork from an oak tree and saw tiny boxes similar to a monk's cell (which is a small room) so he named the structure 'cells'.
What did Robert Hooke see that helped start the cell theory?
Robert Hooke looked at cork with a microscope. He noticed little boxes that he called "rooms" or "cells". Monks and other religious people lived in small cells or rooms.
Who discovered that cork is made of little empty boxes called cells?
Robert Hooke
Who discovered the tiny boxes with a crude compound microscope?
Robert Hooke
What year did Hooke name the little boxes he saw under his microscope?
1700
What did Robert Hooke use to view cells?
Robert Hooke first viewed cells with a microscope. He began calling them cells because they resembled the cells in which monks lived and worked.
What was developed after Robert Hooke?
the cell was "invented" cause when he looked through the microscope, he called the tiny boxes cells.
When did Robert Hooke record his observations of cork cells?
Yea... Robert Hooke examamined a cork cell under a microscope. He realized that it looked like tiny boxes which he later named "cells."
How did Robert Hooke find about cell?
Robert Hooke used a microscope to examine a piece of cork from an oak tree and saw tiny boxes similar to a monk's cell (which is a small room) so he named the structure 'cells'.
What did Robert Hooke see that helped start the cell theory?
Robert Hooke looked at cork with a microscope. He noticed little boxes that he called "rooms" or "cells". Monks and other religious people lived in small cells or rooms.
Who discovered the cell and how did he discovered it?
Robert Hooke discovered the cell in the mid 1600's by looking at a piece of cork in a microscope and noticed it was made up of boxes that looked like prison cells, which is where the name comes from.Alexander Fleming
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 named a cell a cell?
Robert Hooke in 1665 Robert Hooke an English scientist cut a thin slice of cork and looked at it under his microscope. to Hooke the cork seemed to be a bunch of tiny boxes which he called "cells"
Who discovered that cork is made of little empty boxes called cells?
Robert Hooke
Who called cells tiny boxes?
Robert Hooke called cells "little boxes" in the 1600's
