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Activity 3 Structure of A Plant Cell

This document provides instructions for an experiment to examine the structure of plant cells using a microscope. Students will observe onion, tomato, hydrilla, and squash stem cells under low and high power objectives. They will draw and label the cells, noting characteristics like cell shape, cell walls, chloroplast movement, and the presence of trichomes and nuclei. The objectives are to identify basic plant cell parts and compare the structures of different plant cell types.

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Activity 3 Structure of A Plant Cell

This document provides instructions for an experiment to examine the structure of plant cells using a microscope. Students will observe onion, tomato, hydrilla, and squash stem cells under low and high power objectives. They will draw and label the cells, noting characteristics like cell shape, cell walls, chloroplast movement, and the presence of trichomes and nuclei. The objectives are to identify basic plant cell parts and compare the structures of different plant cell types.

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DE LA SALLE LIPA

College of Education, Arts and Sciences


Group No. ____ Biology Department
Cn:__ Name: __________________________________________________________ Q1A__
Date performed ______________
Date Submitted: ______________
General Botany
Exercise 3
The Structure of a Plant Cell

Objectives
*To identify the basic parts of a plant cell
*To compare the shape, structure and function of some
plant cells

Specimens
Onion (Allium cepa), digman (Hydrilla or Elodea), tomato
(Solanum lycopersicum), squash stem (Cucurbita maxima)
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Materials
Compound microscope, cover glass, glass slides, water, iodine solution

PROCEDURE
1. Onion
a. Take an onion bulb and peel off a small piece of epidermis with forceps and scissors.
b. Put the epidermis specimen on the glass slide and flood with a drop of iodine solution.
c. Put a coverslip and examine under LPO and HPO.

2. Tomato
a. Prepare a temporary mount of thin epidermal covering of a ripe tomato fruit.
b. Put a small piece of the epidermis on the glass slide with a drop of iodine solution,
then cover with a cover slip
c. Examine under LPO and HPO.

3. Digman
a. Pull out a single leaf from a young shoot of hydrilla plant that has been exposed to
sunlight.
b. Examine under LPO and HPO. You might notice the streaming movement of the
cytoplasm due to the movement of chloroplasts.

4. Squash stem
a. Mount at least three (3) trichomes from a squash stem.
b. Put a drop of iodine solution into the glass slide
c. Examine closely under LPO and HPO.
RESULTS
A. Onion
Draw 4 cells under LPO and 1 cell under HPO. Label the visible parts.

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B. Tomato
Draw 4 cells under LPO and 1 cell under HPO. Label the visible parts.

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C. Digman
Draw 4 cells under LPO and 1 cell under HPO. Label the visible parts.

D. Squash Trichomes

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D. Squash Trichomes
Draw 4 cells under LPO and 1 cell under HPO. Label the visible parts.

E. Squash Trichomes

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QUESTIONS
1. How do cells of the onion specimen appear under the microscope?
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2. Are the cell walls thick and are the nuclei invisible in the onion epidermal cells?
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3. What shape do the epidermal cells of tomatoes exhibit? What is the color of the dominant
pigments here?
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4. Did you notice the movement of chloroplastids? Describe what you have observed.
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5. What is the shape of the apical and marginal cells of Hydrilla?
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6. In plant trichomes, did you see a prominent nucleus? Is the trichome septate?
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7. What are trichomes for?
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*Adapted from Laboratory Worktext in General Botany by Evangelista E. and Luisito Evangelista. 2009

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