Question

"New cells arise from pre-existing cell" is the statement given by

• A. Max Schultze
• B. R. Virchow
• C. Altmann
• D. Purkinje

Answer 1

The correct option is B R. Virchow

Rudolf Virchow famously stated "Omnis cellula e cellula", i.e., "All cells only arise from pre-existing cells."

Virchow was a major advocate of the cell theory and published an influential theory that cells arose from each other in a continuous series of generations.

He opposed spontaneous generation and carried out experiments in the 1850s to show that nematodes do not arise spontaneously.