Shifa Deshmukh

T.S of Leech

Jaw of Leech

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 I got some brine shrimp cyst
 
 (Artemia salina
 
 ) for fish feeding and got to witness its hatching.

Brine shrimp

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 Wild almond flower
 
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 Wild Almond Tree is a soft wooded tree that can grow up to 115 feet tall. The origin of the name of the bad-smelling Sterculia genus comes from the Roman god, Sterquilinus, who was the god of fertilizer or manure.

Pollen of Wild almond flower

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 The outer layer
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 The inner layer- stained with Eosin
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Onion peel &#8211; the inner and outer layer

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 Processed by: Helicon Filter;
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Pollen of Copper pod flower

Euglena

New foliage of rose plant

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 Placoid scales are found in the
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 cartilaginous fishes
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 . They are also called
 
 dermal denticles
 
 . Placoid scales are structurally
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 homologous
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 with
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 vertebrate
 </a>
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 teeth
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 , having a central
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 pulp cavity
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 supplied with
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 blood vessels
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 , surrounded by a conical layer of
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 dentine
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 , all of which sits on top of a rectangular basal plate that rests on the
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 dermis
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 . The outermost layer is composed of
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 vitrodentine
 </a>
 , a largely inorganic
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 enamel
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 -like substance. Placoid scales cannot grow in size, but rather more scales are added as the fish increases in size.

Placoid scales

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 Human cheek cells have a lining of flat and polygonal cells with irregular boundaries, which are arranged edge to edge. As a result, they seem to form a delicate sheet or lining of cells. There is a presence of a small, densely staining structure in the cell nuclei of females, consisting of a condensed, inactive X chromosome. It is regarded as diagnostic of genetic femaleness.

Human Cheek Cell

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 The wing in nature looks black, but after looking under foldscope it was totally different.

Wing of Carpenter Bee

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 Pollen grains
 
 contain male gametes. When the pollen lands upon the female stigma of another
 
 Lily
 
 flower, the
 
 pollen grain
 
 germinates. A tube grows out of the
 
 pollen grain
 
 through the stigma; the male nuclei pass down this tube and fuse with the female ovules.

Pollen grain of Lily flower

T.S. of Root

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 Collected from fresh water and observed under foldscope.

Shifa Deshmukh

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Posts

Wing of Carpenter Bee

Pollen grain of Lily flower

T.S. of Root

Mosquito larvae

T.S of Leech

Jaw of Leech

Brine shrimp

Pollen of Wild almond flower

Onion peel – the inner and outer layer

Pollen of Copper pod flower

Euglena

New foliage of rose plant

Placoid scales

Human Cheek Cell

Wing of Carpenter Bee

Pollen grain of Lily flower

T.S. of Root

Mosquito larvae

T.S of Leech

Jaw of Leech

Brine shrimp

Pollen of Wild almond flower

Onion peel – the inner and outer layer

Pollen of Copper pod flower

Euglena

New foliage of rose plant

Placoid scales

Human Cheek Cell

Wing of Carpenter Bee

Pollen grain of Lily flower

T.S. of Root

Mosquito larvae

Locations

Statistics

Type of Sample

Foldscope Lens Magnification