Transcript Midlands Region Cell Leader Training Day

CELLS
Light Microscopes
Key Feature
Provides images
of living specimens
Electron Microscopes
http://www.umassmed.edu/cemf/
Key Feature
Provides high
resolution images
Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes
Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes
PROKARYOTES
Cell size = 0.5 - 5.0
µm
DNA circular and
within cytoplasm (no
nucleus)
Few organelles
EUKARYOTES
Cell size = up to 40µm
DNA linear and within
nucleus
Many organelles
CELLS
Prokaryote cell structure
Prokaryotes
Prokaryotes
Prokaryotes
CELLS
Eukaryote cell structure
Animal cell
Plant cell