Cells | Developing the cell theory
Developing the cell theory
Hooke's cells were from a cork tree's dead and dry bark. The fact that cells are units of life was not understood until the nineteenth century. Between 1838 and 1839 Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden, both German zoologists, independently said that all living things have one or more cells, that all cells are similar, and that in order to exist, these cells carry out the same functions. These facts are now called the cell theoryAll living things have one or more similar cells that carry out the same functions for the living process.. The study of cells is called cytologyThe branch of biology concerned with the study of cells.. Rudolf Virchow, a German pathologist, took the cell theory further in 1855 and suggested that all cells are formed by the division of pre-existing...
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