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The microscope wass invented around 1600. Scientists are not exactly sure who created this, but they believe it was made by spectacle makers in the Netherlands.
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Robert Hooke submits "Microgphia". He described the word "cell" by obseving cork closely with a microscope power of 30X.
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This legendary man discovered bacteria, microscopic protists, sperm cells, blood cells, an more.
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Antony Philips van Leeuwenhoek discovers protoza.
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Henri (Rene) Dutrochet finds out that the cell is the building block of life forming plants and animals.
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Robert Brown found out the nucleus was a significant factor pertaining to the cell theory.
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This french man discssed the idea of cell division in plants.
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Theodore Schwann and Matthias Schleiden make the "Cell Theory".
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Mictochondria is explained by Kolliker.
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Rudolf Virchow said that all living cells come from pre-existing cells.
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Louis Pasteur disproved spontanious generation.
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Sutton noticed that chromosomes split during mitosis.
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Mitosis is discovered.
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Koch uses aniline dyes to figure out the bacteria that caused the diseases TB and cholera.
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Wilhelm Roux introduced the idea that every chromosome had a different set of heritable elements.
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Watson and Crick announce the structure of DNA double-helix.
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The first commercial Scanning Electron Microscope is made.
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Sheep are cloned for the first time.
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During this year, mice are cloned.
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The human genome DNA procedure draft is complete.