How did cells get their names?
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From Robert Hooke.
Explanation:
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In 1665 Robert Hooke named them after the cube like sleeping structures in the Monasteries of is time.
Explanation:
Robert Hooke was using the newly invented microscopes to observed the dead tree bark of a cork tree. ( among many other objects, and living things) The microscope revealed the structure of the tree bark as having try division or what looked like the cells that housed the Monks in the Monasteries of his time.
Robert Hooke named the structures he observes cells. The structures in the cork were dead and nearly empty.. These structures are not living cells as we know cells today but the shells left behind by living cells. However the name stuck and all living cells, both plant, fugue and animals are named after the empty cubicles observed in cork by Robert Hooke.