PLANT BIOLOGY (BIO 1304) LAB PICTURES
The following includes a partial list of specimens from Bidlack and Myster's Laboratory Manual for Plant Biology (BIO 1304) that students will examine in lab. To view photographs, simply click on the highlighted / underlined words.
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Compound Microscope |
Lab 4: Plant cells and their organelles |
A1: Elodea (Anacharis)-stained with I2KI |
A2: Elodea- plasmolyzed |
B: Onion epidermis-living nongreen cell |
C: Pelargonium petal-cell wall |
D: Zebrina - Leucoplasts at 100x and 400x |
E: Potato - Amyloplasts at 100x and 400x |
F: Sanseviera - crystals at 100x and 400x |
G: Zebrina, Red Pepper, Kalanchoe- Pigments |
G1: Zebrina at 100x and 400x |
G2: Red Pepper |
G3: Kalanchoe |
H: Other Examples- Mango, orange, apple, carrot |
Lab 5: Mitosis (from onion root tip) and Meiosis (with pipe cleaners) |
Mitosis: Interphase |
Mitosis: Prophase |
Mitosis: Metaphase |
Mitosis: Anaphase |
Mitosis: Telophase |
meiosis (with pipe cleaners) |
Prophase I |
metaphase I |
anaphase I |
Prophase II |
Metaphase II |
Anaphase II |
Telophase II |
Lab 6: Plant Tissues |
A. Meristems (Coleus) |
B. Simple tissues |
B1. Parenchyma at 100x and 400x |
B2. Collenchyma |
B3. Sclerenchyma |
B3a. Sclereids |
B3b. Fibers at 100x and 400x |
C. Complex Tissues (Zea mays) |
C1. Phloem at 100x and 400x |
C2. Xylem (2 pictures) 1, 2 |
Lab 7: ROOT ANATOMY |
A. Monocot root 1, 2 |
B. Dicot root 1, 2 |
C. Root Modifications: taproot (carrot, sweet potato, horseraddish); Arial (orchid); Adventitious (corn); Nodules (clover) |
Lab 8: STEM ANATOMY |
A. Monocot stem 1, 2 |
Vascular bundle at 400x |
B. Herbaceous Dicot Stem 1, 2 |
Vascular bundle at 400x |
C. Woody dicot stems (post-oak) |
X-section of basswood |
D. Coniferous Stem (transverse section of pine) |
Lab 9: LEAF ANATOMY |
A. Monocot leaf 1, 2 |
B. Dicot leaf 1, 2 |
C. Leaf modifications |
Spines (black locust; cactus) |
Succulent leaves (stone crop) |
Plantlets (Kalanchoe) |
Tendrils (vetch) |
Insect trapping leaves (Venous fly trap; pitcher plant) |
Lab 10: PHOTOSYNTHESIS |
Photosynthetic Pigments: chromatography |
Light-independent reactions: Coleus leaf |
Coleus leaf after boiling |
Coleus leaf in hot ethanol |
Coleus leaf in I2KI |
Lab 12: FUNGI |
A. Phylum Ascomycota (Morel mushroom; Sordaria wet mount; Peziza slide) |
B. Phylum Basidiomycota (common mushroom; Coprinus slide; Puffball; bird's nest fungus; bracket fungi) |
C. Lichens (lichen thallus slide) |
Lab 13: ALGAE |
A. Phylum Chlorophyta (Oedogonium wet mount; Ulva) |
B. Phylum Chromophyta (Fucus slide with male and female conceptacles; preserved species) |
C. Phylum Rhodophyta (Callithamnion wet mount) |
Lab 14: BRYOPHYTES |
A. Phylum Hepaticophyta (liverwarts-live male antheridiophores, female archegoniophores, and gemmae cups; slides of Marchantia archegonia, male and female; and sporophyte slide of Marchantia) |
B. Phylum Bryophyta (live moss sporophyte and moss capsule; and moss archegonium and antheridia slides) |
Lab 15: LOWER VASCULAR PLANTS |
A. Phylum Psilotophyta (whisk fern) |
B. Phylum Lycophyta (Lycopodium live and slide; Selaginella live and slide) |
C. Phylum Equisetophyta (Equisetum live and slide) |
D. Phylum Polypodiophyta (gametophyte and younge sporophyte) |
Lab 16: GYMNOSPERMS |
A. Phylum Pinophyta (cone cluster, male cone slide, female megasporocyte slide, |
B. Phylum Ginkgophyta (leaf, ovulate cone, male cone, seed) |
C. Phylum Gnetophyta (Ephedra with male and female strobili) |
D. Phylum Cycadophyta (Zamia seed, mature ovulate cone, and staminate cone) |
Lab 17: ANGIOSPERMS AND FLOWERS |
A. Angiosperm Life Cycle (Lilium anthers, lily ovary and megasporocyte, and eight nucleate embryo sac) |
B. Flower Morphology |
Lab 18: FRUIT MORPHOLOGY AND ANATOMY |
1. Pea pods |
2. Tomato |
3. Cucumber |
4. Banana |
5. Orange |
6. Peach |
7. Coconut |
8. Okra and cotton |
9. Corn |
10. Sunflower |
11. Maple and elm |
12. Acorn |
Lab 19: SEED AND SEEDLING MORPHOLOGY |
A. Dicot seed (bean seed intact and opened) |
B. Dicot seedling (bean seedling) |
C. Monocot seed (I2 stained corn seed) |
D. Monocot seedling (corn seedling) |
Lab 20: PLANT HORMONES |
A. Effect of auxin on leaf abscission |
B. Effect of ethylene on seedlings |
C. Gravitropism in Coleus |
D. Effect of auxin on adventitious root formation |
Lab 21: PLANT NUTRITION |
COMMON WOODY PLANTS OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA |
1. Red Bud (Cercis canadensis) 1, 2 |
2. Eastern Red Cedar 1, 2 |
3. Cottonwood 1, 2 |
4. Sugar Maple |
5. Box Elder 1, 2 |
6.Roughleaf Dogwood 1, 2 |
7. White Mulberry 1, 2, 3 |
8. Chinkapin Oak 1, 2 |
9. Hackberry 1, 2 |
10. Post Oak (Quercus stellata) 1, 2 |
11. Black Jack Oak 1, 2 |
12. Osage Orange 1, 2 |
13. Western Soapberry 1, 2 |
14. Mimosa 1, 2 |
15. Honey Locust 1, 2 |
16. Chittamwood 1, 2 |
17. American Elm 1, 2 |
18. Pecan 1, 2 |
19. Black Locust 1, 2, 3 |
20. Slippery or Red Elm 1, 2 |
21. Poison Ivy 1, 2 |
22. Sycamore 1, 2 |
23. Black Willow |
24. Black Walnut |
25. Bur Oak |
26. Shining Sumac or Winged Sumac |
27. Smooth Sumac |
28. Common Persimmon |
29. Green Ash |
30. Buttonbush |
31. Chickasaw Plum |
32. Mexican Plum |
33. Buckbush, Coralbrry, Indian Curant |
34. Green Brier |
35. Virginia Creeper |
36. Grapes |
37. Japanese Honeysuckle |
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