Who coined the term cell for the box-like structures seen in cork tissue?
ARudolf Virchow
BRobert Hooke
CTheodor Schwann
DMatthias Schleiden
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Robert Hooke
1. Cork tissue viewed through an early lens showed rows of box-like compartments.
2. Robert Hooke described them in a 1665 publication called Micrographia and named them cells.
3. Schleiden and Schwann came later, in the late 1830s, and proposed the unified cell theory rather than the word itself.
4. The term cell was coined by Robert Hooke.
_Source: OpenStax Biology (1st ed., CC BY 4.0), Ch 4 "Cell Structure", section 4.1 Studying Cells_
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