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The Priest discovered that maggots and other creatures would be born inside dead animals and the Journalist discovered oval red -blood corpuscles he also discovered that frog embryos consist of globular particles.
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An article published Antoni van Leeuwen-hoek it was the first important work describing the microscopic organisms.
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He was the first to realize that the nucleus was a part of every living creature that was essential to them. He also was the one that began to call it the nucleus.
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The cell theory was finally officially formulated.
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He suggested that plants are composed of cells
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these three realized that all cells must come from other cells. This would become the basis for the theory of Tissue Formation.
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He published a book describing and showing nerve cells he studied these using histological methods and microdissections made with
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Proposed that nerve cells established anastomoses with each other through a network formed by the minute branching of their dendrites. This was the beginning of the path to discovering the nervous system.
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Put forth that the nerve cell and its prolongations form an independent unit.
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The term Neurons is introduced to describe independent nerve cells.