Science Test #3, Set 10 (Contributions) Flashcards
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Explain the contributions of Robert Hooke
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Robert Hooke was looking at a cork specimen through, and noticed little spaces that he called cells. Without the discovery of cells, we wouldn’t know a lot about the human body and how it worked. Anton van Leewenhoek observed
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Explain the contributions of Anton van Leewenhoek
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Anton van Leewenhoek observed things like gum scrapings and pond water with a microscope and noticed “little animals” that were eventually recognized as microorganisms. To give one example, modern medicine would be significantly ineffective consediering we wouldn’t know about germs.