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Question
Living cells were discovered by
Options
Robert Hooke
Purkinje
Leeuwenhoek
Robert Brown
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Solution
Leeuwenhoek
Explanation -
Cells were first discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665. He observed the cells in a cork slice (dead cells) with the help of a primitive microscope. Leeuwenhoek (1674), with the improved microscope, discovered the free-living cells in pond water for the first time. Robert Brown (in 1831) discovered the nucleus in the cell. Purkinje (in 1839) coined
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