Multiple choice

Hooke was famous for...

  1. First seeing and naming cells

  2. discovering microbes in water and calling them animalcules

  3. saying all plants are made of cells

  4. saying all animals are made of cells
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Explanation

Robert Hooke used an early microscope to examine cork and coined the term 'cell' because the structures reminded him of the small rooms monks lived in.

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