The word cell was used for the first time by

Hertwig

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Robert Hooke

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Von Mohl

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Schleidan

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Solution

The correct option is B
Robert Hooke

Robert Hooke uses the term 'cell' to describe the structures he sees when looking through a compound microscope at non-living cork cells

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	Column A		Column B
(a)	discovery of the cell	(i)	Schleiden and Schwann
(b)	first description of cell nucleus	(ii)	Rudolf Virchow
(c)	formulation of cell theory	(iii)	Robert Hooke
(d)	every cell arises from a cell	(iv)	Robert Brown