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At the time when Darwin proposed his theory, science was
still rather backward in many respects. The electron microscope
had not yet been invented, for which reason the minute details of
living organisms were unseen. The cell still resembled a simple
blot, and no one knew that it possessed a structure no less complex
than that of a city, made up of a great many different organelles.
There was no science of genetics; the biological laws of inheritance
remained to be discovered. Many biologists and scientists, includ-
ing Darwin himself, were sufficiently ignorant as to believe that
The primitive
microscopes
of Darwin's
time gave the
impression
that the cell
was merely a
simple struc-
ture of undif-
ferentiated
protoplasm.