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

6.1. The basic unit of life 2 of 5

Question 2

In which year did Schleiden, Schwann and Virchow put forward the cell theory?

The right answer is the one marked above.

1838. They put it forward on the basis of findings obtained by observing various living materials under the microscope.

1665 is the year Hooke named cells. Getting from that observation to a theory took more than a hundred and seventy years.

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