CELL MICROSCOPE INVESTIGATION Objective: To learn characteristics of all cells To identify cell parts To compare and contrast various cell types- Plant and animal cells To develop microscope skills

Elodea Plant - A water plant

40X Scanner 400X High Power

100X Field Of View Diameter = 8 cells Of F.o.V. = 1.5 mm

400X Diameter = 2 cells = 0.375 mm

1000X

1000X

Parts of cell are--- “organelles”

Nucleus Nucleolus

SPIROGYRA - algae

Tree leaf cross section

Tomato

Drawings must be neat, use colored pencils, accurate in size and scale Your turn! Create a wet mount slide of onion skin Stain w/ Lugol’s iodine Examine Draw and Label Create a slide of cheek cells Stain w/ methyl blue Drawings must be neat, use colored pencils, accurate in size and scale

100X

Cytoplasmic streaming or cylosis

E. Coli bacteria cell

Nerve cells = Neurons

Amoeba proteus