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Microscope Lab - Observing plant and animal Cells
Purpose: Observe differences and similarities between plant and animal cells
Procedure:
1. Create wet mount of onion skin, stain the specimen, and draw onion cells under high
power.
2. Do the same with your cheek cells. Rub toothpick on the inside of your cheek and
rotate it in the drop of the stain on your slide to wash off the cheek cells. Cover with
coverslip and draw under high power.
3. Observe prepared slides of frog and human blood and draw them under high power.
4. Label cell membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus, and cell wall on each drawing if present.
Drawings:
Onion Cells
Cheek Cells
Microscope Lab - Observing plant and animal Cells
Frog Blood
Human Blood
Questions:
1. Compare and contrast animal and plant cell shape?
2. Why do scientists use stains to study cells?
3. Many cheek cells were folded over. What does it tell you about thickness of these
epithelial cells?
4. Why there were no chloroplasts in the onion cells?
Microscope Lab - Observing plant and animal Cells
Grading Rubric:
Drawings
4
Well drawn
cells, all labels
correct.
3
Well drawn
cells, one label
incorrect, or
missing.
2
Unclear
drawing, labels
missing or
incorrect.
1
Very confusing
drawing and
labels.
Correct
complete
answer.
Partially
correct or
incomplete
answer
Incorrect
answer but
some thought
showing
No answer or
no effort
showing.
Onion Cells
Cheek Cells
Frog Blood
Human Blood
Questions
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
Question 4
Total:
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