Question

who discovered the parts of nucleus

Answer 1

• The nucleus was the first organelle to be discovered in 1632 by Antony Van Leeuwenhoek who was a microscopist.
• In 1831 a scientist by the name of Robert Brown discovered cell nucleus and its functions.
• The first discovery of the nucleolus was in 1774 by Felice Fontana. He said that it is composed of proteins and nucleic acids found in the nucleus of an animal cell.
• Textbooks have often said that chromosomes were first observed in plant cells by a Swiss botanist named Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli in 1842.