Name: Tan Jing Wen

Student ID: J18026253

Section: B2

Experiment 5
Title: Structure and Function of Living Cells

A. Prokaryotic Cells
1. Observe the prepared slides of three different shapes of bacteria. Which objective lenses are being
used to view the bacteria?
Low-power lens is being used.

Spirilla

Bacilla

Cocci

a) Would you say bacteria are larger or small organisms?

Bacteria are small organisms.

b) Can you discern any detail within the cytoplasm?

No, I cannot.

B. Animal Cells as Observed with the Light Microscope

Cytoplasm

Nucleus

Plasma membrane
 C. Animal Cells as Observed with the Electron Microscope
Cytoplasm

Secretory vesicles

Vesicle
Mitochondrion Centrosome

Golgi body Centriole

Nuclear pore

Nucleolus

Nucleoplasm Plasma membrane

Ribosome

Nuclear envelope

Rough Endoplasmic
Reticulum

Lysosome

D. Plant Cells Seen With the Light Microscope

a) Elodea Leaf Cells
1. Describe the three-dimensional shape of the Elodea leaf cell.
Elodea leaf cell has rectangular shape.

2. What are the shapes of the chloroplast and nucleus?

Chloroplast is oval and nucleus is round sphere shape.

3. Compare the size of mitochondrion to chloroplast.

Chloroplast is bigger than mitochondrion in size.
 Nucleus

Cytoplasm
streaming
Chloroplast

b) Onion Scale Cells

Cell wall

Cytoplasm

Nucleus
 E. Plant Cells As Seen With The Electron Microscope

Cell wall

Microfilaments

Chloroplast

Mitochondrion
Nucleolus

Ribosome
Nuclear envelope
Vesicle
Nucleoplasm

Central vacuole
Golgi body
Microtubule
Plasma membrane

Rough endoplasmic
reticulum

Smooth Endoplamic Reticulum