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because he can. now next time please do not cheat on your homework, you can not get a question "do you think" wrong!

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Q: Why do you think antoni vam leeuwenhoek called them animacules and not planticules?
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Who discovered the one celled animals known as protozoa which he called animacules or wreched beasties?

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek


Who called animalcules?

Animacules was first called by anton van leewenoek when he first discovered microbes using His crude microscope so he named the organisms he saw in the drop of pond water animacules.


Who discovered first single cell organism?

Anton van Leeuwenhoek , a dutch merchant, discovered the single celled organism.He was a microscope seller and he decided to take a look at pond scum. He saw that they were small animals.He named them animalcules which means small animal. Today we call animalcules single celled organisms. His name is Van Leeuwenhoek


Who was the first person to report seeing living moving cells using a microscope?

Probably Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), who saw many one-celled organisms with his primitive microscopes. He called them "animacules", but more to the point, he carefully recorded his observations, complete with drawings.


Where did Leeuwenhoek find what he called animalcule?

The animalcules that Leeuwenhoek saw were actually microorganisms. Van Leeuwenhoek called protozoa or bacteria he observed wee beasties and animalcules.


Who discovered animal like protists?

Sir Henry Fandsworth, first discovered protoctists in 1887.Different answer:the first person to discover small protoctists was a dutch cloth salesman called antoni van leeuwenhoek.


What did Robert Hooke call the boxes cork seem to be made of?

He called them "jail cells". He also called them "animacules".


Where was Antoni Patek born?

Antoni Patek was born in a small river town called Piaski near Lublin, Poland


Why Leeuwenhoek called a founding fathers of microscopy?

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What did Anton van leeuwenhoek call what he saw?

He called it Bacteria.


Who discovered that atoms contain negatively charged particles called corpuscles?

British chemist Robert Boyle- he thought that all matter was made of very tiny particles called corpuscles.


Who called boxlike structures in cork cells?

Anton von Leeuwenhoek