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-observed how plants and animals reproduced
-observed sperm and egg cells and their imporance in reproduction -
Jansens microscope allows scientist to observe tiny objects
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-believes spontanous generation is real and that there are recipes for living things
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Discovered small boxes in a piece of cork and called them cells as they looked like the cells where monks lived
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-observed the nucleuses of red blood cells of salmon
-first to observe protozoa and bacteria
-Had a hobby of grinding lenses to use to study tiny objects -
-Sates that "all organic beings originate from and consist of vesicles or cells"
-Basically saying cells come from cells and all living beings are made of cells -
Says these nuclei are essential to life of the cell
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-Saw importance of nucleas
-Stated parts of plants are composed of cells -
-shows there is no such thing as spontaneous generation
-cells come from other cells -
-stated egg cells and sperm cells are, in fact, cells
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-copied Robert Remak in stating cells coem from preexisting cells
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-Formed the theory of Biogenisis proving spontaneous generation was wrong