Intro to cells (article) | Khan Academy
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It may seem obvious now that we, and other living things, are made up of cells. Prior to the 160…The first person to observe cells as microscopic structures was the British scientist Robert Hooke. In fact, he was the person who gave cells their name. In his book Micrographia, he used the term cell to refer to the box-like structures he saw when he looked at dead cork tissue through a simp… The cells that Hooke observed, however, were in dead tissue, and were in fact cell walls left be…Despite the discovery that cells existed, it took quite some time for scientists to realize that they weren’t just an odd fringe case, but rather, the essential building blocks of all plants, animals, and other living things. In fact, it wasn’t until the 1830s that botanist Matthias Schleiden and zoologis…
It may seem obvious now that we, and other living things, are made up of cells. Prior to the 160…The first person to observe cells as microscopic structures was the British scientist Robert Hooke. In fact, he was the person who gave cells their name. In his book Micrographia, he used the term cell to refer to the box-like structures he saw when he looked at dead cork tissue through a simp…
The cells that Hooke observed, however, were in dead tissue, and were in fact cell walls left be…Despite the discovery that cells existed, it took quite some time for scientists to realize that they weren’t just an odd fringe case, but rather, the essential building blocks of all plants, animals, and other living things. In fact, it wasn’t until the 1830s that botanist Matthias Schleiden and zoologis…
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