Who declared that cells are the basic building block of plant matter?

Matthias Jakob Schleiden

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Robert Brown

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Zaccharis Clarks

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None of the above

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Solution

The correct option is A Matthias Jakob Schleiden
Matthias Jakob Schleiden, a German botanist, observed the development of plants from seeds and concluded that all plant tissues are composed of cells and that an embryonic plant arose from a single cell. After that, he generalizes this statement as cell theory i.e. "cell is the basic unit of life" with the work of Schwann. Therefore the correct answer is option A.

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