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NEET 2026
Exam
NEET
Year
2026
Subject
Botany
Chapter
Cell - The Unit of Life

NEET 2026 · Botany · Cell - The Unit of Life

Cell theory was formulated by __________.

Cell theory was formulated by __________.

Options

  1. AAntonie Von Leeuwenhoek
  2. BSchleiden and Schwann
  3. CRobert Brown
  4. DSinger and Nicolson

Correct answer

B. Schleiden and Schwann

Step-by-step solution

Matthias Schleiden (1838), a German botanist, and Theodore Schwann (1839), a British zoologist, together formulated the cell theory.

Antonie Von Leeuwenhoek first saw and described a live cell.

Robert Brown discovered the nucleus.

Singer and Nicolson proposed the fluid mosaic model of the cell membrane.
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