Question

The German physician (and political revolutionary) Rudolf Virchow added this very important idea to cell theory:

a. No cell lives forever.

b. The two cells that combine during sexual reproduction use meiosis.

c. Omnis cellua e cellua: every living cell is the product of pre-existing cells.

d. Cells, which could now be seen under better microscopes, had nuclei.

Answer 1

Option 'c' is correct : Rudolf Virchow proposed every living cell is the product of pre-existing cells.

The cell is the structural and fundamental unit of life. Pre existing cells give rise to living cells by the process of division. In order to study the disease at cellular level virchow used his cell theory that new cells arise from pre existing cells and his work made it very understood that diseases occur at cellular level. Thus making it easier for scientist to diagnose the disease with more accuracy.