cell theory
Americannoun
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Mukherjee recounts the beginnings of cell theory among 19th-century European scientists and the growing consensus that the cell is the fundamental unit of life in plants and animals.
From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2022
Recall that cell theory dictates that all living things are made of one or more cells.
From Textbooks • Sep. 6, 2018
We know the existence of cells is a fact and that cell theory provides testable explanations of how cells function.
From Slate • Mar. 26, 2015
That discovery led to others, which led to the creation of cell theory, the notion that all living things are made of cells, and that new cells are made when old cells divide.
From Scientific American • May 10, 2013
Only when cell theory established itself in the 1830s was preformationism abandoned.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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