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Question
What is the cell theory? Who propounded it and when?
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Solution
All animals and plants are composed of cells, which serve as the units of structure and function. This, in short, is called the Cell Theory,
Cell theory was propounded by Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden in the year 1839 and was modified by Rudolf Virchow in 1858.
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