Question
Who would have first made this statement while observing cork under a microscope?
"The cork looks like little rooms, or cells.”
Hooke
Schleiden
Leeuwenhoek
Virchow
"The cork looks like little rooms, or cells.”
Hooke
Schleiden
Leeuwenhoek
Virchow
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The statement "The cork looks like little rooms, or cells" would have first been made by **Robert Hooke**. He observed cork under a microscope in 1665 and was the first to describe plant cells, referring to them as "cells" because they resembled small rooms (from the Latin word "cella").