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").
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
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