jan 1, 1838 - The Discovery that all Plants have Cells

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In 1838 matthias Schledian, a german biologist and botanist came to the conclusion that all plant tissues are made up of various cells and that embryonic plants can rise from a single cell. He advised that the cell is the most basic building block of all plant matter, this was one of the first discoveries of the cell theory. As he made these findings, he then went on to see that “lower plants only consist of one cell, while the higher ones are composed of many individual cells. This discovery allowed and paved the way for Theodore Schwan to then use his findings and cell theory to see that the same occurred in animals. It also largely contributed to studies in the field of embryology from his introduction of the Zeiss Microscope lens and his work with cells and cell theory as the main principle of biology.

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