Robert Hooke used the term cell in which of the following year?
A
1650
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B
1665
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C
1865
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D
1960
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Solution
The correct option is B 1665 The cell was discovered by Robert Hooke in the year 1665 when he saw an empty box like compartments in a very thin slice of cork under his microscope and named it cellulae which later changed into the cell.