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Cells

History of the Cell Theory

Ryan Strehlein

Cells, the make-up of all living things. Some cell are complete
organisms, such as unicellular bacteria and protozoa. Other types of cells are
called multicellular, such as nerve cells and muscle cells. Withen the cell is
genetic material, Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) containing coded instructions for
the behavior and reproduction of the cell. The cell was first discovered by the
1665 English scientist Robert Hooke, who studied the dead cells of cork with a
crude microscope. Robert Hooke was born on the isle of Whight and educated at
the University of Oxford. Hooke could not have discovered the cell without the
microscope which was developed by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek a 1674 Dutch maker of
microscopes. Leeuwenhoek born in Delft, Holland and had little or no scientific
education. Leeuwenhoek also confirmed the discovery of capillary systems.
Theodor Schwann a German physiologist born in Neuss and educated at the......


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