The word cell comes from the Latin cellula, [[meaning]], a small room. The descriptive term for the smallest living biological [[structure]] was coined by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hooke Robert Hooke] in a [[book]] he published in 1665 when he compared the cork cells he saw through his microscope to the small rooms [[monks]] lived in.[4][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(biology)] | The word cell comes from the Latin cellula, [[meaning]], a small room. The descriptive term for the smallest living biological [[structure]] was coined by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hooke Robert Hooke] in a [[book]] he published in 1665 when he compared the cork cells he saw through his microscope to the small rooms [[monks]] lived in.[4][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(biology)] |