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who discovered the cell?
theodor schwann
matthias jakob schleiden
robert hooke
Brief Explanations
In 1665, Robert Hooke used a primitive microscope to observe cork and named the small compartments he saw "cells". Theodor Schwann and Matthias Jakob Schleiden are known for the cell theory (Schwann for animal cells, Schleiden for plant cells), but they did not discover the cell.
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