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Robert hooke called a cell a cell because the word cell means "a small room" and thats what the cells looked like in the thin little slice of cork he looked at under the miceoscope.
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∙ 11y agoCell comes from the Latin word "cella" which means storeroom or small container in English. Either that or he thought is sounded cool.
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