Lesson: Chapter 6 — The Structure and Function of Plant and Animal Cells

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Question 1

In 1665 Robert Hooke looked through a microscope and named the compartments he saw "cells". What was he looking at?

A A piece of onion peel B Cells from his own cheek C The blood of a frog D A section of cork

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A section of cork. In it he saw a group of compartments packed together like the cells of a honeycomb.

Onion peel and cheek cells are the specimens used in the two activities in this chapter — they are not what Hooke observed.

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