What do Plant Cells look like under the microscope

today let's take look at what plant cells look like underneath the microscope now this is fairly simple lab you need microscope you're going to need some blank microscope slides you're going to need some aquatic plants they tend to work little bit better that grabbed out of my local pond the this morning and then red onion now if you don't have red onion you can use different kind of onion but you just need some stain in order to see it so we're going to start off looking at the onion cells we want to slice that onion and then we're going to peel back the layer all right just like just like ogres onions have layers and so we're going to peel that layer back until we get layer that's just one cell thick now the nice thing about this Red Onion is going to be naturally stained for us so it should show up in the microscope without us having to add any iodine to it here can you see get massive chunk of onion cells that have that nice purple color we should be able to see all right now we're going to take that layer we're going to lay it flat out on our slide now perfect world would have slide cover do not instead have two microscope slides so we're going to lay that cover out or that onion out and then we're going to put the second slide over the top and you're going to see that immediately mess up and roll that layer of onion over itself and making it unviewable so let's back at it back at it again for round two take chunk of that onion layer that onion skin we're going to carefully put it onto the cell and then we're going to take our time this time and smash it down in between like sandwich so we can take look at that now we're going to go over to our microscope and we're going to look underneath scanning power always start underneath the scanning power and so you can focus and find the cells that you're looking at and we're going to take look at what this looks like now when we zoom in we should be looking at for things like cell walls when we're looking at the onion cells so we see here we have our died and undyed cells but we can see very clearly they look like kind of bricks that are all stacked together those are those plant cell and then if we zoom in those little dark circles in there those are going to be our nuclei so each cell has one nucleus that we can see clear as day underneath the low power objective lens of our microscope now we contrast that onion cell with our plant cells that we have here now keep in mind this is leaf whereas onions are Roots so we're going to see some different structures we're going to take that pond water plant that we grabbed usually it's elodia couldn't find any this morning so we have different aquatic plant and this one's lot more simple we're going to take that leaf we're going to put it on the slide we're going to smash it down making it nice and flat so we just see things that are one cell layer thick we're going to take that slide and we're going to put it underneath our microscope once again underneath that scanning power we're going to take look at our plant cells here and we notice right away we can see the cell walls that grid the brick laying system but they're much smaller all right they're much smaller and so there's lot to look at and so we're going to zoom in under that low power and we should start to see our chloroplast so we see lot of green discs here and those are going to be the chloroplast of the leaf that are responsible for photosynthesizing once again so we take look here little bit closer and you see those green disc shaped objects once again the reason that we couldn't see them in the onion plant think about it onions grow under under not underwater but Underground and so they don't need chloroplast instead the chloroplasts are all found in the leaves of plants here's second aquatic plant that grabbed sample of not quite as clear it's little darker there but you can see the nuclei inside the cells the cell walls and then some chloroplast on the edges hey subscribe for more science lessons and then click the video below to go into more detail about these particular cell parts and what they do for plants thanks for watching