Transcript Unit 7 Cheek Cell Lab

Cheek Cell
LAB
5. Why is Iodine necessary?
• Our cheek cells are clear. Iodine is a
brown color. It is also a stain. I will turn
our cheek cells a brown color so that we
will see them.
6. The light microscope used in the
lab is NOT powerful enough to
view other organelles in the cheek
cell. What parts of the cell were
visible.
• Cell membrane
• Cytoplasm
• You might have seen
• nucleus
6. List 3 organelles that were NOT
visible but should have been in the
cheek cell.
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Mitochondria
Ribosomes
Endoplasmic reticulum
Golgi body
Vacuoles
Lysosomes
chloroplasts
7. Is the cheek cell a eukaryote or
prokaryote? How do you know?
• Eukaryote
• Because it has a nucleus