Q.

The concept of "Omnis cellula e cellula" regarding cell division was first proposed by                  [2019]

1 Aristotle  
2 Rudolf Virchow  
3 Theodore Schwann  
4 Schleiden  

Ans.

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Rudolf Virchow (1855) observed that new cells develop by division of the pre-existing cells—"Omnis cellula e-cellula" (theory of cell lineage or common ancestry). This finding gave cell theory its final shape.