Who is the English scientists who first used the term "cell" to describe the building blocks of all living things?

1 Answer
Jun 25, 2017

Robert Hooke

Explanation:

Robert Hooke discovered and named cells in 1665. He was at Wadham College, Oxford when he first looked at cork cells under a microscope. It is believed that he named the cell 'cell' after the small rooms called cells in monasteries.