With genetics behind us, we now start our Cell Unit!
Since many people (apparently) did not know how to use a microscope, we spent most of the day today looking at some weird things: fleas, cheek cells, plant cells, etc. We observed the differences between the plant and animal cells (animal cells are rounder, while plants are larger with exposed darker middles), along with some other cool determining factors.
Think I have a few pictures here...
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| The size of plant cells from a low zoom. |
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| Ditto. (Just LOOK at it.) |
With our new-found knowledge of both the optical and digital microscopes, we could now move on to bigger and better things! Like the Cell Project! As I obviously started the project on Day 1 (and learned most of the cell parts back in grade school), I could determine which parts of the plant cell that the animal cell did not have (chloroplasts, large vacuole, etc.) and vice-versa. (Now the bacteria cell, on the other hand, has many differences. But it will also be discussed later.
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