Cell Cell is the Fundamental, structural and functional unit of any organism. Discovery of the cell- Cell is discovered by " An English Scientist Robert Hooke in 1665. He saw hive like structure in the bark of a stem of a tree under a self made microscope. This microscope was v simple type. He saw that there are some hives like structure in the cork of stem. He told this ' cell' whose meaning is " Little room" in latin Language. He also published a book " Micrographia" in 1665. Antony Leeuwenhoek was a microscopist who made an improved microscope in 1674. and discovered the free living cells like Amoeba,bacteria Paramecium,chlamydomonas ( algal cell) in pond water. He identified the sperm cells of human being, dogs, rabbit, frogs and insects etc. ...