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World Service,30 Aug 2005,22 mins

What is Life - part four

Discovery

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How the cell took a central position in biological thought. The discovery of the cell is not as straightforward as many of the scientific breakthroughs of the last few hundred years. It took many years before living matter was considered to be compartmentalised.

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