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The Human Cheek Cell Answer Key
The Human Cheek Cell Answer Key
The Human Cheek Cell Answer Key
3. Sketch the cell at low and high power. Label the nucleus, cytoplasm, and cell membrane of
a single cell. Draw your cell to scale.
Low power should have cells that are fairly small within the viewing field; at high power a
cheek cell will take up about half of the viewing field.
Because cells are transparent, methylene blue stain is necessary to make the cell parts
visible.
5. The light microscope used in the lab is not powerful enough to view other organelles in the
cheek cell. What parts of the cell are visible?
6. List two organelles that were NOT visible but should have been in the cheek cell.
8. The mouth is the first site of chemical digestion in a human being. Your saliva starts the
process of breaking down the food you eat. Keeping this in mind, what organelle do you think
would be numerous inside the cells of your mouth?
Lysosomes.