Microscopy

Slides you may be expected to draw high and low power plans from

Slides
Transverse section through blood vessels Transverse section through a xerophytes leaf (eg. Erica heather, Marram grass) Transverse section through a dicotoledonous leaf (eg.privet) Transverse section through a stem eg. helianthus Longitudinal section through a stem Transverse section through a root eg. Rananculous root Longitudinal section through a root Tranverse section through trachea, bronchi and alveolar tissue Human red and white blood cells Epidermal, palisade mesophyll, spongy mesophyll leaf cells Longitudinal or transverse section of phloem: Companion and phloem sieve cells Longitudinal or transverse section of phloem xylem:Vessel elements Transverse section of cells undergoing mitosis

Transverse section through blood vessels

Transverse section through xerophytes

Transverse section through a leaf

Transverse section through a stem

Transverse section through a stem

Transverse section through a root

Transverse section through a root

Longitudinal section through a root

Transverse section through trachea

Transverse section through trachea

Transverse section through a bronchus

Transverse section through alveoli (lungs)

Human Red and White Blood Cells

Palisade Mesophyll, Spongy Mesophyll and Epidermal Cells

Xylem Tracheid Cells Tracheid cells are narrow and overlapping and have thin circular areas in their walls called pits. Pinus (pine) sp, stem, stained longitudinal section of wood. Tracheids overlap at their end walls and have large, bordered pits. They are the only waterconducting cell type in the xylem of most nonflowering plants.

Xylem Vessels Elements

Vessel elements (cells) are broad and arranged end to end. They have pits on their side walls but also have large wall-free (perforated) end walls. Quercus (oak), stained stem longitidunal section of wood. The arrow indicates a column of vessel elements with tapering end walls and side walls with slit-like pits.

Xylem Tracheid Cells and Vessel Elements

Phloem Sieve Cells and Companion Cells

Longitudinal section through a stem (xylem and phloem)

Longitudinal section through a stem (xylem and phloem)

Cells undergoing mitosis

1 interphase, 2 interphase / beginning prophase 3 early prophase, 4 mid prophase, 5 late prophase, 6 metaphase ,7 early anaphase, 8 anaphase, 9 early telophase, 10 telophase (cytokinese)