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Scince:Biology
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With the help of his father Zacharais would develop the first compound microscope which paved the way to the discovery of cells.
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Flemish physican who over the course of 5 years conducted an expiriment using a willow tree to support spontaneous generation.
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He is the scientist who came up with the name cell after looking at a picece of cork through a compound microscope.
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He improves Jansen's compound microscpe and as a result discovers single celled animals called protozoa.
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Comes up with cell theory.
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An English botanist who discovered the nucleus in plant cells.
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After studying plants he would state that all plants are made up of cells and that cells were the basic building block of all matter.
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Defined cell as the basic unit of all animals and stated cell theory.
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States that sperm and egg cells are cells.
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Disproves spontaneous generation with broth test.
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Applies cell theory to health and says that all cells develop from existing cells.
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A firm believer in spontaneous generation which cell theory disproves.
