More Related Content Similar to Biocanvas Microscopic Images (20) More from Sarah Jones (20) Biocanvas Microscopic Images7. Rotifers are tiny multicellular organisms found commonly
in freshwater environments around the world.
8. Fibroblasts are cells that help maintain
tissue structure by secreting proteins
like collagen and elastin.
10. Gastropods like this marine snail use their radula, a
rake-like feeding organ, to scrape food from surfaces.
15. Leaf cells from a genetically engineered tobacco
plant made to produce fluorescent proteins.
22. The Arabidopsis thaliana plant was the first plant to have its entire genome
sequenced and is commonly used to study basic plant biology.
23. Plankton are, by definition, aquatic organisms that cannot swim against a current.
24. By supplying oxygen and nutrients, blood vessels are
necessary for a healthy and functional retina.
26. The brain of a Drosophila larva (fruit fly), with pre-mature eye
structures (spotted red structures in the top right and left).
30. Just before the fruit fly Drosophila enters metamorphosis to become an adult fly, the
developing eye begins to form a furrow where specialized light-sensitive cells will develop.
31. Daphnia, commonly known as the water flea, are mostly transparent plankton less than 5 mm
in length. One can be seen here playing with a colony of Volvox, a type of green algae.
34. Filaments from the green algae Spirogyra, so named for
the spiral arrangement of chloroplasts within each cell.
35. A mouse embryo at 40-times magnification 13.5 days after fertilisation.
36. A cut across the central vein of a leaf from Acrostichum
aureum, a mangrove fern, at 20-times magnification.
48. A fluorescence and differential interference
contrast image of a tick feeding on its cattle host.
54. A view of Xenopus tadpoles with confocal microscopy.