Who among the following advocated cell theory?

Purkinje and Von Mohl

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Schleiden and Schwann

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Hertwig

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All the above

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Solution

The correct option is B
Schleiden and Schwann

The cell theory is credited to the work of Theodor Schwann and Matthias Jakob Schleiden in the 1830s.

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	Column I		Column II
A	Anton Von Leeuwenhoek	i	Omnis cellula-e cellula
B	Robert Brown	ii	Formulated the first cell theory
C	Schleiden and Schwann	iii	Discovered the nucleus
D	Rudolf Virchow	iv	First saw and described a live cell