Cell theory
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- Oh no! I have a project about cell theory due tomorrow and I completely forgot! I'll just use my time travel machine and ask the the scientists for help
- 1665
- My name is Robert Hooke, I'm the first inventor and while I was looking at cork, Hooke observed box-shaped structures, which he called “cells” as they reminded him of the cells, or rooms, in monasteries
- 1674
- My name is Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, I'm also know as the "Father of Microbiology", I'm also the first person to observe organism by closely observing water with a simple mircoscope
- 1838
- My name is Matthias Schleiden, and cofounded the cell theory. In 1838 Schleiden defined the cell as the basic unit of plant structure, and a year later Schwann defined the cell as the basic unit of animal structure.
- 1839
- My name is Theodor Schwann. My friend Schleiden told me how plants were made out of cells. Curious, I decided to look at animal tissues and discovered that all animals are made of cells.
- 1855
- 'My name is Rudolf Virchow, his observation that a whole organism does not get sick—only certain cells or groups of cells. In 1855, at the age of 34, he published his now famous aphorism “omnis cellula e cellula” (“every cell stems from another cell”).
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