Which scientist first coined the name "cell"?

A. Robert Hooke

C. Rudolf Virchow

B. Anton Van Leeuwenhock

D. Matthias Schleiden

• In the 1660s, Robert Hooke looked through a primitive microscope at a thinly cut piece of cork. He saw a series of walled boxes that reminded him of the tiny rooms, or cellula, occupied by monks.

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A. Robert Hooke

Robert Hooke was an English scientist who coined the term cell for the Honeycomb structures he saw in a cork slice