General Biology Slide Set A

Description

Set A offers prepared slides of animal and plant structures in whole mount (w.m.), longitudinal section (l.s.) and cross-section (c.s.) preparations. Also available in CD-ROM format (see S500-CD, at left).

Zoology

• Amoeba proteus, w.m., showing nucleus and pseudopodia
• Hydra, w.m., extended, to show foot, body, mouth, and tentacles
• Lumbricus, c.s., back of clitellum showing muscular wall, intestine, typhlosole, and nephridia
• Daphnia and Cyclops, w.m., both specimens on slide
• Musca domestica, leg, fly with clinging pads (pulvilli)
• Apis mellifica, honeybee anterior and posterior wing
• Squamous epithelium, isolated (simple) from human cheek
• Striated muscle, l.s., showing nuclei and striations
• Compact bone, c.s., specially stained for lamellae, canaliculi
• Human scalp, l.s., showing hair follicles, sebaceous glands, epidermis
• Human blood smear, stained for red and white corpuscles

• Bacteria from mouth, smear, Gram stained showing bacilli, cocci, spirilli, and spirochaetes
• Diatoms, strewn slide of mixed species
• Spirogyra, vegetative filaments with spiral chloroplasts. Rhizopus, w.m., (or Mucor), mycelium and sporangia
• Moss, w.m., stem with leaves

• Rannunculus, c.s., buttercup, typical dicot root
• Zea mays, c.s., corn, monocot stem with bundles
• Helianthus, c.s., sunflower, herbaceous dicot stem
• Syringa, c.s., lilac leaf, showing epidermis, palisade parenchyma, spongy parenchyma, and vascular bundles
• Lilium, c.s., lily, anthers with pollen grains and pollen sacs
• Lilium, c.s., ovary showing arrangement of ovules
• Allium, w.m., onion epidermis with cell nuclei
• Allium, l.s., onion root tip for mitosis, cell division