Cells

• Cells are the basic building block of life
• Robert Hooke first saw and discovered the cell in a slice of cork using a microscope
• Felix Dujardin discovered protoplasm
• Matthias Jakob Schleiden discovered that all plants are made up of cells
• Theodor Schwann discovered that all animals are made up of cells
• Rudolf Virchow discovered that cells can reproduce
• All organisms are made up of one or more cells
• Cells are the basic building units of life
• New cells come from existing cells by cell reproduction