What magnification do you need to see plant cells?
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What magnification do you need to see plant cells?
400x magnification
You can see yeast cells, animal cells, and plant cells pretty well with a 400x magnification (assuming 10x eyepiece and 40x objective lens).
What are some features of Elodea cells that you would not expect to find in an animal cell?
Based on your observations, list at least 2 features of Elodea cells that you would not expect to find in an animal cell. A cell wall and chloroplasts are not found in animal cells. Students also might infer the presence of a large central vacuole.
What causes Elodea cells to have a green appearance under the microscope?
Oxygen can be observed leaving the elodea cells. Under a microscope the green chloroplasts inside of the cell can be observed. The chloroplasts contain the green chemical chlorophyll that is used in the process of photosynthesis.
What magnification do you need to see chloroplasts?
Electron micrographs (4800 × magnification) of chloroplasts in leaves…
When the Elodea leaf was put in distilled water what did you see under the microscope?
When the Elodea leaf was put in distilled water, what did you see under the microscope? The cell looked enlarged. When the Elodea leaf was exposed to 0.85% saline (physiological saline), what happened to the leaf? There was no effect on the leaf.
What makes Elodea special?
The family is notable for the unique pollination mechanism of some genera (e.g., Elodea, Enhalus, Hydrilla, and Vallisneria). The male flowers become detached and float about until they encounter and transfer pollen to a female flower, which has reached the surface of the water by means of an elongated stalk.
What organelles Cannot be seen under light microscope?
Light microscopes cannot be used to view certain cell organelles such as endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes, centrioles, golgi bodies, lysosomes etc. This is because the required magnification to view these parts cannot be achieved under these microscopes, which are relatively tinier.
What parts of a plant cell can you see under a light microscope?
Cytoplasmic organelles of plant and animal cells may include the ribosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, vesicles, the Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, lysosomes, peroxisomes, nucleus, chloroplasts, vacuoles.
What sort of movement can be observed in the leaf cells of Elodea when observed under the light microscope?
One of the fun things to observe using a light microscope is the movement of chloroplasts around the cell, especially in the plant Elodea. This movement is referred to as cyclosis or cytoplasmic streaming.
What process caused the difference in appearance between the Elodea cells in culture water and those exposed to the 20% saline solution?
Answers to questions Such cells are said to be plasmolyzed. This occured because the water potential inside the cells was greater than that of the salt solution. As a result, water moved out of the cells (primarily out of the vacuoles) and into the salt solution.
Can a chloroplast be seen under a light microscope?
Chloroplast structure Chloroplasts are larger than mitochondria and can be seen more easily by light microscopy. Since they contain chlorophyll, which is green, chloroplasts can be seen without staining and are clearly visible within living plant cells.
Which of the following would you be least likely to be able to see with a light microscope?
You can not see the very smallest bacteria, viruses, macromolecules, ribosomes, proteins, and of course atoms.
What magnification do you need to see mushroom spores?
x 400 magnification
To study fungal spores, basidia, cystidia, sphaerocysts and other tiny features of fungi you will need a microscope capable of at least x 400 magnification.
What can I see with 2500x?
What can you see with a 2500x microscope?
What do you think would happen to the cells if we put the Elodea in a distilled water solution?
A hypertonic solution will cause a cell to lose water through osmosis since the solution will have a higher solute concentration than the inside of the cell.
What does Elodea need to survive?
Keep the habitat at temperatures ranging from 50 to 77° F for Egeria densa, and 45-65°F for Elodea canadensis. Your container should be large enough to submerge the entirety of the Elodea in treated water. Elodea can grow if it is free floating, but it does grow more vigorously if it is rooted in a substrate.
Can humans eat Elodea?
But you can buy it as a dried powder to add to soups and stews and smoothies.
