To use a light microscope to examine animal or plant cells. To make observations and draw scale diagrams of cells. Turn the coarse focus so that the stage is as close to the objective lens as ...

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...

The parasitic vine Cuscuta campestris grows by latching onto the stems and leaves of plants and inserting organs called ...

The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

A plant cell wall is arranged in layers and contains cellulose microfibrils, hemicellulose, pectin, lignin, and soluble protein. These components are organized into three major layers: the primary ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose -- a major constituent of all plant cell walls -- a team has captured images of the microscopic process of cell-wall building continuously over ...

The cells that make up the walls of the finest of all lymphatic vessels have a lobate, oak leaf-like shape that makes them particularly resilient to changes in fluid volume. A similar cell shape also ...

A low power diagram is used: as a plan to show the arrangement of any distinct regions of the tissue, for example the tissues in a plant root to show the outline of individual cells that make up ...

Advanced techniques are allowing scientists to witness the process where plant cells generate cellulose fibers.