Robert Hooke's Contribution To The Cell Theory

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In 1635-1702 a physicist named Robert Hooke was the first inventor of the microscope. He first observed thin slices of cork, which he described to be as small rooms, the ones that were similar to the small rooms in monasteries. He only saw the cell wall because cork cells are not alive. After the discovery of the microscope in 1635-1702 by Robert Hooke, another microscope inventor named Anton Leuwenhoek, he discovered the microscope that can magnify things in 1675, and he also discovered the world of one-celled organisms in pond water, using a handmade microscope, which he then called animalcules. After this scientist came Matthias Schlieden, he was a German botanist; he is the one that discovered that all of plants were made out of cells, also he contributed to the creation of the cell theory. Another contribution was by Theodor Schwan; he was a German zoologist he …show more content…
The cell theory states; that calls are the building blocks of all living things: they can be multicellular or uni-cellular, all life processes take places in cells and new cells come from pre-existing cells. Also all cells have the basic chemical composition, but not all cells are like.
There are two types of cells Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic cells. Eukaryotic cells include animal, plant and fungal cells. Prokaryotic cells include bacteria. E coli and Achaea Also prokaryotes are much more simple than the eukaryote. Prokaryotes are unicellular and 10-100 microns in size. The prokaryote cells feed from sunlight, they photosynthesize, also they cause disease because they feed on living things and last also they feed on dead things. Eukaryote cells are more complicated, they have organelles, also have chromosomes, they can be multicellular or unicellular. They distinguish between plant and animal cells. A eukaryote cell has a nuclease unlike prokaryotes, they do not have a nuclease but they have DNA floating around

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