Question

How did cells get their names?

Answer 1

From Robert Hooke.

Explanation:

In `1665`, Robert Hooke was investigating plant ells using his microscope, and he saw tiny, jail-like structures floating, and so he decided to call them cells, because they looked like the ones in prisons. That was also when one of the first microscopes were used!

Read the full story here:

http://www.history-of-the-microscope.org/robert-hooke-microscope-history-micrographia.php

Answer 2

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.