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 Who was the first person to see a live cell?

Option: 1

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

 

 


Option: 2

Schleiden and Schwann

 

 


Option: 3

Rudolf Virchow

 


Option: 4

Robert Hooke


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Anton van Leeuwenhoek, who described the algae Spirogyra in 1674, was the first person to see a living cell under a microscope. Therefore, the correct answer is option 1 which is  Anton van Leeuwenhoek.

Explanation for  the incorrect options: 

Option 2 is incorrect because the cell concept was proposed by German botanists Matthias Jacob Schleiden and Theodor Schwann.

Option 3 is incorrect, in order to give the cell theory its ultimate form, Rudolf Virchow altered the Schleiden and Schwann hypothesis.

Option 4 is incorrect because Hooke's discovery of the cell was made possible by the development of the microscope. Hooke saw cork structures that were box-shaped and gave them the name "cells" because they resembled monastic cells or flats. 


 

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