Reflection-Using+Microscopes

=**My Reflection-Using Microscopes**=

__Cheek Cells__ Using a toothpick, we got a particle of Joey's cheek cell. This sample was easy to focus but each individual cell wasn't as obvious as the sample of the plant cell. They were little globs, we tried to zoom in so we could see the cells more clearly but it didn't work.

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Onion Membrane__ Viewing this sample was interesting, and since the membrane is purple, it was easy to spot the patterns under the microscope. The line patterns showed little oval-shapes repeating all along the membrane. This was all we could find along the membrane, but it was interesting to see the patterns all along the onion. We also noticed how this "pattern" didn't change throughout the membrane.

__Onion Membrane (With Salt Solution)__ After adding the salt to the onion sample, we noticed that this didn't help, nor blur it, it made no difference. Actually, when we tried to focus in on the onion sample after adding the solution, I noticed how the microscope would either focus into the onion OR you could just see the solution. We found this a disadvantage since it did not help with the viewing the sample.

__Plant Membrane__ I think this sample was the most interesting, and effective. We found so many different patterns, and shapes. To get this, I cut a piece of the leaf of my plant, then scraped the jelly-like substance from it and we used the membrane or skin, since it was thin and colored (green). ANother thing that made it interesting was that my plant is still unknown (to me) since I could not find it's classification on the internet. We found the structure of it easily, and when we zoomed in even farther we could find the exact pattern quickly and we saw all the millions cells there were.



Overall, I think the most effective sample with the best outcome was the plant cell. :)