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Jon Greenberg jongreen at bluemarble.net
Tue Sep 12 06:43:56 EST 2000


I had the impression from Esau's plant anatomy text that juice sacs are only 1
or 2 huge cells.

Gary Cote wrote:

> One possibility that may not work because it's a bit messy is an orange.
> The sections are made up of little "juice vesicles" which are very visible
> to the eye and contain only about a hundred cells.  Should be visible with
> a hand lens.  Of course, the reason they're so big is the same reason
> they're so messy -- huge vacuoles full of juice.  Any citrus should do as
> well.
>
> Gary Cote
>
> At 10:17 PM 9/11/00 +0100, you wrote:
> >Dear Folks,
> >I'm teaching a non-majors plant biology course this semester, and I'm
> >starting a section on cells.  I'm trying to include as much real
> >observation of things as I can, but am constrained by the fact that there
> >is no lab, and the class meets in an auditorium.
> >Here's what I'd like to do, and I send this out to you all in hopes that
> >someone knows how to achieve it.  I'd like to pass around a leaf or chunk
> >of tissue that has cells of enough size to be seen with a 5X hand lens.
> >I'm only shooting for them being able to see the outlines of the cells, but
> >not anything within.  Any candidates?
> >Thanks,
> >Kathleen Archer
> >
> >
> >---
> >
> >
> >
> Dr. Gary Coté
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Biology
> Box 6931
> Radford University
> Radford, VA 24142-6931
>
> Ph: 540-831-5630
> Fax: 540-831-6615
> email: gcote at radford.edu
> http://www.radford.edu:8800/~gcote/
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