2. The development of microscopes allowed scientists to investigate living things in greater detail. Through many investigations, scientists found evidence that all living things are made of one or more basic units that divide to form new units. Scientists used their evidence to explain the relationship between these “building blocks of life” and the organisms to which they belong. What are these explanations called?

a) Cell theory

b) Germ theory

c) Law of mitosis

d) Law of biogenesis