Lab Illustrations

Remember, you should be able to re-recognize and classify per our discussions the following illustrations:

Lab 11

Live Nostoc, note the heterocyst and vegetative cells.

Live Paramecium, note the shadow of the cilia and other organells, visible both on live and prepared slides by slightly moving the fine focus.

Live Amoeba; note the pseudopods, defined as?

Lab 12

Live Euglena, note the green structure and shadow of the flagella

Spyrogira, a green algae

Shells from representative diatoms, a golden algae.

Lab 13

Morels, also known as "Dry-land fish".

Live yeast. 

        
Cup-fungi                                                                A common Club fungi

          
Fairy ring produced by Club Fungi                            Puff balls

          
Amanita phalloides (Death Angel)                              Imperfect fungi; athlete's feet and ringworm 

Note the zygospores intermingled with the mycelium in this "unflattering representative" of sexual
reproduction in black bread mold.

Note the ascospores of this common "sac fungi", a cup-fungi called Peziza.

Hard to see in this illustration, but represented are basidiospores, which
are often referred to as "club fungi".  These spores belong to Coprinus,
a common mushroom.

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