Question

Hooke observed as boxes or cells in the cork were actually .......... cell.

• A. Living
• B. Dead
• C. Both A and B
• D. None of these

Answer 1

The correct option is B Dead

• Robert Hooke discovered cell in the year 1665. He observed cork cell in the bark of Spanish oak tree under a simple microscope and was able to see the empty structures surrounded by walls and named it a cell.
• He elucidated his observation in a book called "Micrographia". He was unable to see the organelles inside the cell as cork cell which he observed was dead.