Robert Hooke coined the term cell for biological organisms. While looking at slices of cork through a microscope, he noticed how similar they units making up the cork looked to monks' cells.
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Robert Hooke named cells after observing cork cell walls in 1665.
Robert Hook observed cells first. He used a simple microscope
In 1665, a man named Robert Hooke observed "cell-like compartments" while looking at a slide of cork. He called them "cells" due to the resemblence to monks' cells.
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Robert Hooke discovered cells under a microscope in 1665. He took a sliver of cork and called the small encasements he saw, cells. They were dead cells, though. The first person to see living cells, was a man named Anton van Leeuwenhoek. He took pond water and observed that under a microscope.
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Robert Hooke named cells after observing cork cell walls in 1665.
Robert Hook observed cells first. He used a simple microscope
Robert Hooke coined the term "cell" in the mid 1600's. He named them because when he first observed the under a microscope, he was looking at a piece of cork; whose cells are rectangular and reminded him of the cells in a monastery.
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In 1665, a man named Robert Hooke observed "cell-like compartments" while looking at a slide of cork. He called them "cells" due to the resemblence to monks' cells.
because the cells are arranged as striae, thus striae means the longitudinal thin appearance
Robert Hooke - he observed that cork is made of cellsRobert Brown - discovered the nucleus of the cellJohannes Purkinje - observed the complex fluid inside the cell named it protoplasmMatthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann - cell theoryRudolf Virchow - discovered that cells increased in number by dividing and formed new cells
Robert Hooke. This English scientist was the one who discovered cells and named them.
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Robert Hooke was the scientist that coined the term cell. He discovered a cell structure back in the year of 1665.
It was the Romans who observed the heavens and named the 'moving stars' they observed after their Gods and Goddesses, it became the habit of early astrologers to do the same.