NOUN
- (biology) the theory that cells form the fundamental structural and functional units of all living organisms; proposed in 1838 by Matthias Schleiden and by Theodor Schwann
How To Use cell theory In A Sentence
- The second is to propose an "open-cell" concept and derive a model on better theoretical basis to overcome the defects of the cell theory.
- Theodor Schwann, a founder of cell theory in the mid-nineteenth century, described life as 'nothing but the form under which substances capable of imbibition crystallize.' Koestler's Solution
- Cell Theory then rapidly turned into a more dogmatic cell doctrine, and in this form survives up to the present day.
- The second is to propose an "open-cell" concept and derive a model on better theoretical basis to overcome the defects of the cell theory.
- The second is to propose an "open-cell" concept and derive a model on better theoretical basis to overcome the defects of the cell theory.