Robert Hooke & Cell Theory (1 Viewer)

[axwe7]

Q : Describe the evidence used by Hooke to support the beginning of the cell theory, "all living things are made of cells".

How do I answer this?

 

[BlueGas]

Do you at least know what he was looking at when using the microscope? And what happened after he saw through the microscope?

 

[latenights]

Something about how Hooke used a simple microscope to observe sections of cork and found that they were composed of little boxes, which he termed cells. He was viewing the cell walls found in cork tissues.

 

[Whicanti]

In 1665 Robert Hooke an English scientist, observed a honeycomb structure (dead cells) with a piece of cork using a primitive compound microscope and commented that they resembled compartments in which monks lived and termed them ‘cells’. It was actually in 1838 when a German botanist Schleiden came to the conclusion that plants and animal cells were composed of cells. This was done by a using light microscope to examine cells from both plants and animals. Furthermore, Schleidon published his findings in a book and Schwann a German zoologist extended this theory to his own field. As a result both scientists concluded that all living things were composed of cells by noting this similarity from close examination of both organisms, which is one of the 3 fundamental aspects of the Cell Theory.