L13. ANIMAL CELLS vs PLANT CELLS

Last Monday we compared animal and plant cells with the mycroscope. The objectives were to identify the major components of cells, differentiate between animal and plant celss and to measure dimensons of the entire cell and the nucleus.

First we peeled off a leaf from an onion. dyed it with safranin stain (red) and then viewed it in the mycroscope.

Then we did some calculations to know the real size of the cell and its nucleous.

After that, we extracted a cell from our cheeks.