The Weird History of the Cell Theory Quiz

Who is credited with coming up with the first compound microscope?

• Matthias Schleiden

• Robert Hooke

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Zacharias Janssen

What did Anton van Leeuwenhoek call bacteria when he first discovered them?

• Microorganisms

• Cells

• Bacteria

• Animalcules

Who is credited with coining the term 'the cell'?

• Robert Hooke

• Zacharias Janssen

• Matthias Schleiden

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

What did Robert Hooke compare the chambers he saw in cork to?

• Offices

• Houses

• Prisons

• Monasteries

Who discovered that all plants are made of cells?

• Matthias Schleiden

• Zacharias Janssen

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Robert Hooke

Who discovered that all animals are made of cells?

• Theodor Schwann

• Robert Hooke

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Zacharias Janssen

Who reached out to Theodor Schwann to work on the cell theory?

• Zacharias Janssen

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Robert Hooke

• Matthias Schleiden

Who proposed the idea that cells come from preexisting cells?

• Rudolph Virchow

• Theodor Schwann

• Matthias Schleiden

• Robert Remak

What did Schleiden believe about the origin of cells?

• They come from free-cell formation

• They come from preexisting cells

• They come from crystallization

• They come from spontaneous generation

Who is credited with showing that cells come from preexisting cells?

• Rudolph Virchow

• Robert Remak

• Theodor Schwann

• Matthias Schleiden