We looked at the difference between Monocot and Dicot stems under the microscope. We also looked at Zea mays cells (corn), Ranunculus cells (buttercups) and onion cells.
Here are the Zea mays slides - this is a monocot, because the vascular bundles are not in a clear ring around the edge of the stem. The vascular bundles are in a random arrangement.
Also, these pictures are terrible, because it is really hard to take a picture with your phone through the eyepiece of a microscope.
Slice of a root (corn)- Monocot
Slice of a stem (corn) - Monocot
Onion cells with clear cell walls and nuclei. One cell is undergoing mitosis.
I didn't take pictures of the ranunculus, but I should have. It was clearly a dicot, with a ring of vascular bundles around the edge of the stem, with a pith in the center.
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