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Schleiden

[ shlahyd-n ]

noun

  1. Mat·thi·as Ja·kob [mah-, tee, -ahs , yah, -kawp], 1804–81, German botanist.


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Different investigators found that animal tissue is also composed of cells; and between 1835 and 1839 Schwann and Schleiden formulated the law that every metazoic organism is made of cells, and starts from a cell.

The work of Schleiden and Schwann marks the close of the first period in the history of the cell-theory—the period dominated by the cell-wall.

For example, the chapter of receipts for cooking fish can have a title-page of its own, after the style of the engravings in Schleiden's 'Wonders of the Deep.'

In this remarkable statement he seems to anticipate in part the discoveries afterwards made as to pollen tubes, and more particularly the peculiar views promulgated by Schleiden.

The revelations of the cellular composition of animals by Schwan and plants by Schleiden mark greater steps in human progress than any or all of the decisions of the supreme court.

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