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Produced the first compound microscope by combining two convex lenses within a tube.
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Discovered the cellular composition of cork and introduced the word cell to science. Because it was box like and reminded him of a prision cell.
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Proved that meat could not make maggots only flies landing on meat caused meat to have maggots
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Polised lenses of microscope to improve magnification
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Discovered animacules, (an older term for a microscopic animal or protozoan.
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Discovered bacteria by a sample of saliva from him mouth.
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He discovered that that if soup was in a container was clean and that micro-organisms that ruin the food enter from the air
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Discovered the cell called nucleus.
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Discovered that plants were made up of cells
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Discovered that animals were made up of cells
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Stated that all living things only come from other living things
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discovered that soup could only be spoiled if it was exposed to unfiltered air in a jar that allows micro-organisms to enter.
