Cell Study

In science lately we have been studying plant and animal cells. A plant cell shape is rectangular and an animal cell shape isn't any shape it's blobby like. The plant cell is stiff because it has a cell wall, a rigid layer of non-living material that surrounds the plant cell.The animal cell is flexible because it doesn't have a cell wall so it's a cell membrane that surrounds the animal cell. While studying cells, at the same time we're going to look at them. For the animal cell we are going to look at our own cheeks cell. We are going to take a toothpick and rub it in the inside of our cheek. For plant cells we're going to look at two plant cells. One is a layer of onion scale and the other is elodea. The difference is the elodea has chloroplasts which makes the plant green. Onions don't have chloroplast because they’re not exposed to the sunlight.To see all the cells we're going to use a compound microscope. I am so excited for all the labs. (by Cocoe)