Microscopy

Pictures taken at school using my phone, we use a light microscope. Keep in mind that I'm still learning, since this is my first year at school. If the images are hard to see you can open them or just zoom in!
(Images edited on Digicamfx!)

waterpestcel,29-9-25

This cell was taken from waterweed on 29.9.25. You can't see the nucleus, our teacher told us it's because the chloroplast covers it. It's hard to see the cell walls so I outlined one in red. All of the green specks are the chloroplast.

uiencel,29-9-25

This cell was taken from an onion (white) on 29.9.25. It was colored with methylene blue, which makes the cell wall and nucleus easier to see. I don't think I have to point out where these are.

wangslijmvliescel,29-9-25

This cell was taken from my cheek mucous membrane on 29.9.25. It was also colored with methylene blue. I am an animal, so my cells don't have any walls, and in the image you can't see the celmembrane, since these usually aren't shown on light microscopes. You can see the nucleus, though.

kroonbladcel,29-9-25

This cell was taken from a petal - I'm not sure from what flower it came - on 29.9.25. I'm pretty sure you can see the cell walls, but you can't see much else, which was kind of strange. On other things I saw - such as the waterweedcells - you couldn't see the nucleus because it was covered by the plastids. But you can't see the chromoplast here either, which I had expected to see, too. I also looked at a tomato cell (not pictured) and the chromoplast was hard to see, so maybe they were present here.

kroonbladcel,29-9-25

This cell is also from my own cheek mucous membrane, taken on 29.9.25. Colored with methylene blue. I made this one first, and if you can see the cell isn't very "good". None of the cells in this preperation were "good", so I had to make the other ones. When I first saw this, I honestly thought I had some crazy ilness or something, but my teacher told me that, because my cells have no cell walls, the cells just managed to merge together - the preperation was difficult to make, so that might have caused this. In the picture of the other cell, you can also see a little fold on the left underside. In this picture, you can see multiple cell nuclei, I think 2-3.