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Q. Leeuwenhoek discovered the free living cells for the first time in _____:
Answer: Pond water
Notes: Robert Hooke, a scientist, was the first person to discover the existence of cells with the help of a microscope in 1665. Anton van Leeuwenhoek, in 1674 with the improved microscope, discovered freeliving cells of algae Spirogyra in pond water for the first time. He described the algae Spirogyra and also saw bacteria.

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