• Question: who discovered cells and when was it discovered?

    Asked by Avisha05 to Jayne, anuantony, Duncan, Katherine, Sajid on 7 Nov 2017. This question was also asked by Izzy.K.
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      Duncan McNicholl answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      I don’t know, but I do know that they’re called cells because they look a bit like the rooms that monks and nuns sleep in, which have been called cells since before cells were discovered. Isn’t that weird?

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      Sajid Javed answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      i did a quick search and came across this https://www.thoughtco.com/robert-hooke-discovered-cells-1991327

      Robert Hooke was the person who discovered them in 1665. he was a pretty good drawer too as he had to hand draw what he saw down the microscope!

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