Each of these slides showed the various tissues and cell types that make up a plant. I, specifically,

looked at the angiosperm plants. I examined these plants by using the naked eye and drew

diagrams describing the morphology of the plant. I, also, examined and drew diagrams of the

anatomy of the plants by using a light microscope. I observed the ground, dermal, and vascular

tissues and all their components. I observed them through the prepared slides and the freshly

prepared slides, in which I had to cut a freehand section with a razor blade and stain with toluidine

blue O to make. After I was finished with my observations I put away all of the equipment,

cleaned my station and everything that needed to be cleaned, and threw away the materials that

The purpose of this lab is to be able to identify the basic tissues and cell types, based on

their appearance. In this lab I examined prepared slides of a typical dicot stem and sclerenchyma

in a pear and a freshly prepared slide of apium graveolens (celery) stem. In these slides I observed

When I looked at the monocot and dicot leaf epidermis (figure 4) I was that some of

They had very thick cell walls and a roundish shape. From this slide I could see the pits and the

usually found in patches under the epidermis of stems, and along the major veins in leaves.

the protoplast used to be. (Seagull 25) There are two different types of sclerenchyma cells: fibers,

tissue. From the observation of the two slides the parenchyma cells are the most abundant in the cell of a

In the root, ground tissue, which is mostly parenchyma cells, fills the cortex. Ground tissue

cortex of stems and roots, in the pith of stems, in leaf mesophyll, and in the flesh of fruits. There

they consist of a cell wall surrounding empty space; this empty space is called the cell lumen where

the epidermal cells contained chloroplasts. These were the guard cells which had a crescent

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