Scientists

Question 1

Robert Hooke

Answer 1

first to observe “small chambers” in cork and call them cells.

Question 2

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1673)

Answer 2

the first person to observe living organisms from pond water

Question 3

Matthias Schleiden

Answer 3

concluded that all plants are made of cells

Question 4

Theodore Schwann (1839)

Answer 4

all animals are made of cells

Question 5

Rudolf Virchow

Answer 5

proposed that new cells are formed only from cells that already exist

Question 6

What are the 3 parts of the cell theory?

Answer 6

1. All living things are made of cells.
2. Cells are the basic units of life (structure and function)
3. All cells come from cells.